Crossword clues for junk
junk
- It's worthless
- Kind of fax
- Basement buildup
- Attic accumulation, perhaps
- ___ food
- Scrap-heap stuff
- Scrap heap stuff
- Miscellaneous stuff shoved into a drawer
- Discarded items — Chinese sailing vessel
- Clutter — Chinese boat
- China Sea sight
- Basement buildup, perhaps
- Attic contents, often
- "What a piece of ___"
- Link jam, surprisingly, with starter of unappealing spam
- Unwanted post
- Closet buildup
- Attic buildup
- Atticful
- Chinese vessel
- Kind of mail or bond
- A highly addictive morphine derivative
- The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
- A narcotic that is considered a hard drug
- Clutter - Chinese boat
- Horse which is valueless
- Discarded objects
- Throw out
- Worthless stuff
- Chinese boat
- It's not worth much
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Junk \Junk\, n. [Pg. junco; cf. Jav. & Malay jong, ajong, Chin. chwan.] (Naut.) 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.
Junk \Junk\ (j[u^][ng]k), n.
A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See
Chunk. [Colloq.]
--Lowell.
Junk \Junk\, n. [Pg. junco junk, rush, L. juncus a bulrush, of which ropes were made in early ages. Cf. Junket.]
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.
Hence: Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.
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(Naut.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships. Junk bottle, a stout bottle made of thick dark-colored glass. Junk dealer, a dealer in old cordage, old metal, glass, etc. Junk hook (Whaling), a hook for hauling heavy pieces of blubber on deck. Junk ring.
A packing of soft material round the piston of a steam engine.
A metallic ring for retaining a piston packing in place;
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A follower.
Junk shop, a shop where old cordage, and ship's tackle, old iron, old bottles, old paper, etc., are kept for sale.
Junk vat (Leather Manuf.), a large vat into which spent tan liquor or ooze is pumped.
Junk wad (Mil.), a wad used in proving cannon; also used in firing hot shot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"worthless stuff," mid-14c., junke "old cable or rope" (nautical), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French junc "rush, reed," also used figuratively as a type of something of little value, from Latin iuncus "rush, reed" (but OED finds "no evidence of connexion"). Nautical use extended to "old refuse from boats and ships" (1842), then to "old or discarded articles of any kind" (1884). Junk food is from 1971; junk art is from 1966; junk mail first attested 1954.
"Chinese sailing ship," 1610s, from Portuguese junco, from Malay jong "ship, large boat" (13c.), probably from Javanese djong.
1803, "to cut off in lumps," from junk (n.1). The meaning "to throw away as trash, to scrap" is from 1908. Related: Junked; junking.\n\nNew settlers (who should always be here as early in the spring as possible) begin to cut down the wood where they intend to erect their first house. As the trees are cut the branches are to be lopped off, and the trunks cut into lengths of 12 or 14 feet. This operation they call junking them; if they are not junked before fire is applied, they are much worse to junk afterwards.
[letter dated Charlotte Town, Nov. 29, 1820, in "A Series of Letters Descriptive of Prince Edward Island," 1822]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. discard or waste material; rubbish, trash. vb. (context transitive English) To throw away. Etymology 2
n. (context nautical English) A Chinese sailing vessel.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Junk may refer to:
- Junk, Melon (cetacean) of the sperm whale
- Scrap, recyclable waste used to build and maintain things
- Junk, salt-cured meat
- Junk (ship), a type of Chinese sailing vessel
- Junk status, debt credit rating
A junk is an ancient Chinese sailing ship design that is still in use today. Junks were used as seagoing vessels as early as the 2nd century AD and developed rapidly during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). They evolved in the later dynasties, and were used throughout Asia for extensive ocean voyages. They were found, and in lesser numbers are still found, throughout South-East Asia and India, but primarily in China. Found more broadly today is a growing number of modern recreational junk-rigged sailboats.
The term junk may be used to cover many kinds of boat—ocean-going, cargo-carrying, pleasure boats, live-aboards. They vary greatly in size and there are significant regional variations in the type of rig, however they all employ fully battened sails.
Junk, known as Smack in the U.S., is a realistic novel for young adults by the British author Melvin Burgess, published in 1996 by Andersen in the U.K. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teens who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism. Both critically and commercially it is the best received of Burgess' novels. Yet it was unusually controversial at first, criticized negatively for its "how-to" aspect, or its dark realism, or its moral relativism.
Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 Junk was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. Junk also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice. It is the latest of six books to win both awards.
In the U.S., Henry Holt published the novel in 1997 as Smack —another slang term for heroin.
"Junk" is a song written by Paul McCartney in 1968 while the Beatles were in India. "Singalong Junk" is an instrumental version of "Junk" that also appears on McCartney.
is a Japanese Yakuza Zombie movie directed by Atsushi Muroga. Shot in 1999 and produced by Japan Home Video, it is essentially a remake of a Japanese mafia movie called "Score" also directed by Muroga, but this time with zombies getting in the way of being paid for the heist. The movie pays homage to Re-Animator, Reservoir Dogs (just as "Score" did), and the original Dawn of the Dead. It stars Kaori Shimamura, Yuji Kisimoto, Nobuyuki Asano, Tate Gouta, and Osamu Ebara. It is released in North America by Unearthed Films.
Junk is a British pop rock band. Their song "Life Is Good" (a cover of indie New Zealand band Ritalin's song) has famously appeared in numerous films and TV shows, such as Agent Cody Banks, The Benchwarmers, "A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper", Skyrunners, Veronica Mars, 10 Things I Hate About You, You Wish!, Go Figure, Switch, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, America's Funniest Home Videos, and is the theme song for reality show The Two Coreys.
Other featured songs include "So Hard" in Employee of the Month, "Waiting" in Dance of the Dead, and "Satellite" in Kyle XY.
Junk is the seventh studio album by French electronic music band M83, released on 8 April 2016 on Naïve Records in France and Mute Records in the United States.
Usage examples of "junk".
We correct the phrase, which should read thus: In the year 1512 they departed from Banda toward Malacca, and on the baxos or flats of Lucapinho Francis Serrano was wrecked with his junk, from whence he escaped unto the Isle of Amboina with nine or ten Portugals which were with him, and the Kings of Maluco sent for them.
The Bogue would be more strongly prepared for battle than the smattering of war junks near Hong Kong.
Across the harbor, the patrolling war junks were an ominous reminder that the war at the Bogue was not as Ear removed as it seemed.
It must be the booze, it must be the junk, it must be all the pornography.
That goes especially for Minnie and this Bosey who kept the junk shop.
Now here was this new girl not any older than Marva but her husband was what they called a career man, she probably believed in all that junk the old ladies believed in, so she could learn to play canasta and go to hell.
She and I then went hunting for a chicha, a water pipe, something she said Curtis wanted, and I helped her distinguish the good ones from the junk made for the tourist trade.
And a clochard upsets a candle or something and sets the straw and junk ablaze.
The four kids had managed to cart all the robotware and comp junk into the service elevator and were presumably down on the street now trying to convince some free-lance trasher there was nothing toxic or hazardous hidden away in any of the shells.
He identified an undecorated blue glass bottle, a clear vase blown on to a mould of a many-petalled rose, and an over-heated piece of cloudy glass that Tris had taken from the cullet, or junk glass, barrel.
While men dived for the far walls of the room, Professor Durand followed the devastating robot right through the heap of junk.
Stuart Frisch was her next examinee, another one of the crew members whose youthful energy and affinity for junk food seemed to eclipse any obvious need for sleep.
We had come quite close to the city when my attention was attracted toward a tall, black shaft that reared its head several hundred feet into the air from what appeared to be a tangled mass of junk or wreckage, now partially snow-covered.
He worked exclusively with the so-called junk DNA in rats, introducing a selective catalyst through the cell wall on a folic acid carrier to delete specific but unimportant nucleotides.
Knowing that Foy would be at the Chinese ship, he had hurried to the junk and had done his part there.