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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

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

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

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

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

I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!
Rihanna

I normally don't eat junk food.
Martin Yan

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
Steve Buscemi

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

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 eat whatever I want, junk food included.
Vanessa Marcil

I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.
Kristen Bell

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
Ethel Merman

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
Peace Pilgrim

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
Jamie Oliver

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
Stanley Tucci

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
Jamie Oliver

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
Gavin MacLeod

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
John Sladek

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
Colin Greenwood

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.
Roma Downey

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Walter F. Ulmer

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
Mark Bittman

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.
Merton Miller

For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.
Nicole Eggert

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

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
Brock Yates

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
Joe Bob Briggs

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

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Junk Translations

junk in Norwegian is narkotika, skrap

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