junk

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English junke (old cable, rope), probably from Old French jonc (rush), from Latin iuncus (rush)[1].

A box full of junk (2)

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junk (uncountable)

  1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
  2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
  3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
    • 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7
      Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.
  4. (slang) Genitalia.
    • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok
      I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
      Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
      Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
  5. (nautical) Salt beef.
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junk (third-person singular simple present junks, present participle junking, simple past and past participle junked)

  1. (transitive) To throw away.
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Etymology 2 [edit]

From Portuguese junco, from Javanese djong (Malay adjong).

Noun [edit]

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  1. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
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  1. ^ junk” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).