Junk

Junk

Junk may refer to:
* Things
** Scrap, metallic waste, or waste in general (American Usage)
** Off-speed pitches in baseball jargon
** Junk DNA, DNA without a known function for the organism
** Junk (ship), sailing vessel of Chinese origin
** Hard drugs, especially heroin
** Junk mail, unwanted postal mail, typically from direct marketing operations
** Junk mail, unwanted electronic mail, also called spam
** Junk food, derogatory collective term for fast food and packaged snacks
** Junk bond (finance), a bond rated 'BB' or lower because of its high default risk. Also known as a "high-yield bond", or "speculative bond"
** A slang term for the male genitalia
** [Junk in the trunk|"Junk in [her/the] trunk"] A slang term for pronounced female buttocks
** Stuff

* Titles or names
** Junk, by Christopher Largen
** Junk (Transformers), fictional planet in the "Transformers" universe
** Junk (novel), by Melvin Burgess
** Junk (band), a British pop band
** "Junk", a song written by Paul McCartney
** "Junk", the working title for the Burroughs novel "Junkie"
** A nickname of the character Suigintou of the Japanese manga and anime "Rozen Maiden", analogous to Desu for Suiseiseki.

*Islands
**Junk Island or Pulau Jong off the coast of Singapore
**Junk, a tiny island near Hoy, Shetland in Scotland

ee also

* Junker (disambiguation)
* Junkie


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