junk

junk
n
1. trash, litter, garbage, rubbish, riffraff, Brit. Dial. raff, chaff, crap, Sl. dreck, Sl. schlock, trumpery; refuse, Dial. culch, waste, leavings, leftovers, scraps, sweepings; fragments, remnants, fag ends, odd bits, bits and pieces, odds and ends, truck; castoffs, rags, tatters, castaways, rejects, discards; piece of junk, trifle, trinket, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble.
v
2.Informal. throw out or away, discard, dispose of, get rid of, Inf. trash, Sl. can, Sl. put in file 13 or 17, Sl. put in the round or circular file.
adj
3. trashy, Sl. junky, Sl. crappy, worthless, Inf. no-good; cheap, shoddy, shabby, poor, inferior, second-class, second-rate.

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