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Junk

noun

The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up. Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble.

Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails.

verb

Dispose of (something useless or old). Synonyms: scrap, trash. "Junk an old car" , "Scrap your old computer"

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"Junk" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Junk's old iron," Dicky explained. "And you sell it to the junkman. Once we made forty cents out of one of these fairs. One reason we're beginning so early this year, I've got something very particular I want to buy my mother ...

— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin

... but in wrath, will cry, "Ship ahoy!" and drop down beside each other in calmness, the flags of Emmanuel streaming from the top-gallants. The old slaver, with decks scrubbed and washed and glistened and burnished—the old slaver will wheel into line; and the Chinese junk and the Venetian gondola, and the miners' and the pirates' corvette, will fall into line, equipped, readorned, beautified, only the small craft of this grand flotilla which shall float out for the truth—a flotilla mightier than the armada of Xerxes moving in the pomp and pride of ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... massa? Why, it am a bit o' salt pork, an' a bit o' dat bear you shooted troo de nose yes'rday, an' a junk o' walrus, an' two puffins, an' some injin corn, a leetil pepper, an' a ...

— The Giant of the North - Pokings Round the Pole • R.M. Ballantyne

... leader who is somewhat more intrepid than the rest. Their favorite performance is to break into an untenanted house, to knock off the faucets, and cut the lead pipe, which they sell to the nearest junk dealer. With the money thus procured they buy beer and drink it in little free-booter's groups sitting in the alley. From beginning to end they have the excitement of knowing that they may be seen and caught by the ...

— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams

... singly or in small groups and browsed on the withered bunch grass. Summer scorched them, winter humped their backs with cold and arched up their bellies with famine, but they were a breed schooled through generations for this fight against nature. In this junk-shop of the world, rattlesnakes were rulers of the soil. Overhead the buzzards, ominous black specks pendant against the white-hot ...

— The Untamed • Max Brand

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