junks in English

noun

1

old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value.

You can hardly enter or leave the Royal Garden Plaza without tripping over someone's junk or having useless articles thrust into your face.

synonyms: rubbish, clutter, odds and ends, bric-a-brac, bits and pieces, garbage, trash, refuse, litter, scrap, waste, debris, detritus, dross, crap

2

heroin.

Even heroin can be used recreationally; believe it or not, creating a junk habit takes time, money and a whole lot of junk .

3

the lump of oily fibrous tissue in a sperm whale's head, containing spermaceti.

Oil of the first quality (spermaceti) is found in the case and junk chambers in the head and was sometimes stored separately from oil.

4

a man's genitals.

5

a flat-bottomed sailing vessel typical in China and the East Indies, with a prominent stem, a high stern, and lugsails.

There is some evidence for development of robust, high-seas sailing junks in China by thirteenth century AD.

verb

1

discard or abandon unceremoniously.

sort out what could be sold off and junk the rest

synonyms: throw away/out, discard, get rid of, dispose of, scrap, toss out, jettison, chuck, dump, ditch, deep-six, trash

noun

• rubbish, clutter, odds and ends, bric-a-brac, bits and pieces, garbage, trash, refuse, litter, scrap, waste, debris, detritus, dross, crap
• debris, detritus, dust, rubble

verb

• throw away/out, discard, get rid of, dispose of, scrap, toss out, jettison, chuck, dump, ditch, deep-six, trash
• scrap, trash

Use "junks" in a sentence

1. Fuchuan warships (Five-masted junks, about 165 feet long).

2. The children and their families all live on the bay in houseboats, or junks.

3. The Chinese still carry goods and passengers along coasts and on rivers by means of junks.

4. On the reverse, Fujiyama with a low hanging cloud over two Japanese junks above a wave scroll and the date "1945".

5. Guam, joined by Alaska, four light cruisers, and nine destroyers, led the task force into the East China and Yellow Seas to conduct raids upon shipping; however, they encountered only Chinese junks.

6. However, we did have many images to carry away with us—rugged island peaks, sailing junks and, especially, Ha Long Bay, which is but one example of the beauty of Vietnam.

7. The captured vessels comprised one River Monitor (H) Howitzer version (MON), one LCM (6) landing craft, and two LCVPs taken from the South Vietnamese Navy (VNN), plus two Hurricane Aircat airboats captured from the US Special Forces by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in September 1967 and one US Navy LCU-1466 that accidentally entered Cambodian waters in July 1968; in addition, ten Thai civilian fishing junks were apprehended after being washed ashore along the coast due to inclement weather.