Definition of Junk

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Definition of Junk

Junk

A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

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Junk Quotations

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
Tyra Banks

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
Pamela Anderson

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
Avril Lavigne

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Winona Ryder

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
Billy Joel

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
Aldrich Ames

Junk Translations

junk in Norwegian is narkotika, skrap

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