junk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.

   This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?

2. 2
   noun

   Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.

   junk food

3. 3
   noun

   Nonsense; gibberish.

   The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.

4. 4
   noun

   Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

   The poor fellow took so much junk into his system he could only weather the greater proportion of his day in that chair with the lamp burning at noon, but in the morning he was magnificent.

5. 5
   noun

   The genitalia, especially of a male.

   I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk / Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk / Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

6. 6
   noun

   Salt beef.

   My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .

7. 7
   noun

   A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

   Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his, An' gives a good-sized junk to all

8. 8
   verb

   To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

   (On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."

Etymology

From Portuguese junco with reinforcement from Dutch jonk, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, جوڠ, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”). Doublet of djong.