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Noun: Junkers  yûng-kurs
  1. German aircraft engineer who designed the first all-metal aeroplane (1859-1935)
    - Hugo Junkers
Noun: junk  júngk
  1. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value
     
  2. [informal] Worthless material that is to be disposed of
    - rubbish, trash, scrap
     
  3. [informal] A product or production of poor quality
    - trash, clinker [N. Amer, informal]
     
  4. The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
    - debris, dust, rubble, detritus
     
  5. Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
     
  6. [informal] Statements or beliefs that are untrue or make no sense
    - bunk [informal], bunkum [informal], buncombe [informal], guff [informal], rot [informal], hogwash [informal], flapdoodle [N. Amer, informal], rhubarb [Brit, informal], Irish bull [slang], bull [slang], bilge [informal], nonsense, jive [N. Amer, informal], folderol, rubbish [informal], tripe [informal], trumpery [archaic], trash [informal], wish-wash [informal], applesauce [N. Amer, informal], codswallop [Brit, informal], falderal
     
  7. [informal] A narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush
    - heroin, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine
Verb: junk  júngk
Usage: informal
  1. Dispose of (something useless or old)
    "junk an old car";
    - trash, scrap

Type of: applied scientist, boat, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, drivel, engineer, fling, garbage, hard drug, opiate, put away, technologist, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product

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