Junk may refer to:
- Waste, any undesired thing or substance
- Scrap, recyclable waste used to build new things
- Junk (ship), a sailing vessel of Chinese origin
- Junk status, a debt credit rating
- A slang term for drugs considered "hard"; see Hard and soft drugs
- Heroin, a semi-synthetic opioid
- Salt-cured meat
- The melon of the sperm whale
- A slang term for penis and testicles
- "Junk in the trunk" is a slang term for a woman with overly-large buttocks
Titles or names:
- Junk, a novel by Christopher Largen
- Junk (novel), a novel by Melvin Burgess
- Junk (band), a British pop band
- Junk (song), a song written by Paul McCartney
- Junk, a song from Zico Chain's Food album
- Junk (Transformers), a fictional planet in the Transformers universe
- Junk: Record of the Last Hero, a shōnen manga by Kia Asamiya
- Junk (film), a Japanese Yakuza zombie film directed by Atsushi Muroga
- J-U-N-K, a 1920 American film produced by Morris R. Schlank
Famous quotes containing the word junk:
“Kittering’s brain. What we will he think when he resumes life in that body? Will he thank us for giving him a new lease on life? Or will he object to finding his ego living in that human junk heap?”
—W. Scott Darling. Erle C. Kenton. Dr. Frankenstein (Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.”
—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)