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junk
  1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
  2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
  3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
  4. (slang) The clothed genitalia.
  5. (nautical) Salt beef.
  6. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
  7. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “I have all kinds of junk in the drawers, including batteries, gum, pencils, bottles, etc.”
      “We already know why processed food is inferior to fresh, whole food, so let's throw out the junk!”
junkie
  1. (pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
  2. (by extension) An enthusiast of something.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Police found him three blocks down the road, his face covered in ice cream. Questioned by police, he explained that he was an ice cream junkie.”
      “I painted her room in the second trimester and assembled the crib with the eagerness of a Justin Bieber junkie at a meet and greet.”
      “It reads like the dairy of a former junkie whose crime-ridden ways catch up with him.”
junk
junkpile
junkhead
  1. (slang) a junkie, drug addict
junkroom
  1. A room for storing junk.
junky
junkman
  1. A seller of junk.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Does anybody remember a TV movie that starred Andy Griffith as a junkman who wanted to collect everything that was left on the moon for profit?”
      “He says he was destined to work as a ciruja, or junkman, from the cradle.”
      “I killed the junkman for his medicine, then rode two doryms to death to get here in time.”
junkiedom
  1. the state of being a junkie
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junkieness
  1. (rare) the state of being a junkie
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junkiehood
  1. the state of being a junkie
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junkiness
  1. The state of being junky.
junkies
  1. plural of junkie
  2. plural of junky
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It is just the kind of place where drunks, junkies and the down-at-heel find a warm spot to spend the night.”
      “Adrenaline junkies will be in heaven with plenty of free time for paragliding, parachuting or mountain bike riding.”
      “The homeless are often stereotyped as being tramps or junkies who litter shop doorways.”
junkheads
  1. plural of junkhead
junkrooms
  1. plural of junkroom
junkpiles
junkmen
  1. plural of junkman
  2. Examples:
    1. “The brick was bought from junkmen and carefully laid into the living room wall.”
      “Home to nearly 2 million people, the neighborhood is a gritty tapestry of mechanics, metal grinders, junkmen and laborers.”
      “They are supposed to sell the rest of the magazines to the junkmen to be pulped, but they sell them to second-hand dealers.”
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