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How to pronounce junk in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms debris, detritus, dust, rubble
Type of scrap, trash, rubbish
Has types slack
Type Words
Synonyms scrap, trash
Type of toss out, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away


junk an old car.
Type Words
Type of boat

Examples of junk

junk
Another was the six-burner Imperial commercial range hidden under piles of junk.
From the post-gazette.com
Regular readers know that I have become an unwilling connoisseur of junk e-mail.
From the businessweek.com
Many bonds they rated as top-quality in the recent crisis turned out to be junk.
From the kentucky.com
Of course, there's the usual abuse and junk this week, just like any other week.
From the hecklerspray.com
Consequently, when the economy looks vulnerable, bond investors dump junk bonds.
From the sacbee.com
Ireland, yesterday, suffered the ignominy of having its debt cut to junk status.
From the smh.com.au
By the time we were done, there were two truckloads of junk, old seed and earth.
From the guardian.co.uk
If we binge on junk food whenever we're anxious, they are likely to do the same.
From the kansas.com
In relation to financial implications, let them impose a junk-food tax, so what?
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Debris: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
  • Trash: dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"
  • Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
  • Junk is a British pop band. Their song "Life Is Good" appeared in the 2003 movie Agent Cody Banks, the 2006 movie The Benchwarmers, the 2002 movie When In Rome, Veronica Mars, the series 10 Things I Hate About You and the Disney Channel Original Movies You Wish! ...
  • Junk (released as Smack in America) is a 1996 Carnegie Medal- and Guardian Award-winning novel by Melvin Burgess. The book is about the experiences of a group of teenagers who fall into heroin addiction and who embrace anarchism on the streets of Bristol, England. ...
  • 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 (960u20131279). They evolved in the later dynasties, and were used throughout Asia for extensive ocean voyages...
  • "Junk" is a song written by Paul McCartney in 1968 while The Beatles were in India. It was originally under consideration for The Beatles (also known as the White Album). It was passed over for that LP, as it was for Abbey Road. ...
  • This is a list of planets appearing in the fictional Transformers storyline.
  • Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash; A collection of miscellaneous items of little value; Any narcotic drug, especially heroin; Genitalia; Salt beef; To throw away