1 [U] things that are considered useless or of little value:
I've cleared out all that old junk in the attic. * This china came from a junk shop. * There's nothing but junk on the TV.
2 [U] = JUNKFOOD
3 [C] a Chinese boat with a square sail and a flat bottom
verb [VN] (informal) to get rid of sth because it is no longer valuable or useful:
All their old computers had been junked. * His proposals were junked before they were even considered.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is junk a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, junk is tagged as noun.
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