junk — OET · Shobdo

junk informal

noun

an attic full of all kinds of junk:

useless things, discarded things, clutter, stuff, odds and ends, bits and pieces, bric-a-brac, oddments, flotsam and jetsam, white elephants;

garbage, refuse, litter, scrap, waste, debris, detritus, dross;

leavings, leftovers, remnants, cast-offs, rejects;

British rubbish, lumber;

North American trash;

Australian, New Zealand mullock;

informal dreck;

British, informal gubbins, odds and sods;

vulgar slang crap, shit;

archaic rummage.

verb

sort out what can be sold off and junk the rest:

throw away/out, discard, get rid of, dispose of, scrap, toss out, jettison, dispense with;

informal chuck (away/out), dump, ditch, bin, get shut of;

British, informal bung away/out, get shot of.

junk (1) Oxford Dictionary of English