I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
junk bond
junk food
junk mail (= letters, usually advertisements, that you do not want )
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I only ever get junk mail and bills.
junk mail
junk shop
junk yard
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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Careful searching through old junk shops and around antique markets may well produce endless ideas and inspiration from which you can work.
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To them, this is just old junk .
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None of your old wearing your-heart-on-your-sleeve junk for me.
■ NOUN
food
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This is just my kind of diet - no junk food , plenty of fruit which I love.
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Her secret, she said, is all the preservatives in the junk foods she eats.
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Reduce your intake of salt, sugar and junk foods - especially beneficial if you suffer from water retention.
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I miss things like potato chips and junk food .
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Probably because of a diet of junk food and a general reluctance as a nation to exercise.
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Chavez, at 33 and perhaps fighting for the last time, eats junk food , drinks beer and loves to party.
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Kym Marsh, 24, revealed yesterday she and the other four members lived on junk food .
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Large-muscle coordination comes from riding bikes and climbing trees, not from watching junk food commercials where other kids play and run.
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She tossed the junk mail in the bin, unopened.
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It almost went out with the rest of the junk mail .
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Many of us find that even if we bin our junk mail , it continues to arrive.
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Often, you have to get unwanted junk mail before you can block it-an unhappy chore at best.
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It was just one more item of junk mail , and he wasn't paying for it.
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If we create coupon books, how do we get them to the on-line customer without flooding the network with junk mail .
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Forty-four percent of the junk mail is never even opened.
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Mind you, I do have a relative who has one tried and tested way of getting rid of his junk mail .
shop
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I'd carried it back from a local junk shop .
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Liverpool gets scruffier every day, with junk shops springing up all over.
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Old deal or pine kitchen chairs can be picked up reasonably in junk shops and painted or stained.
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Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop .
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So Rita scoured junk shops for second-hand pieces to fill the rooms.
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Recently I opened a cupboard in a junk shop and there, sure enough, was a skeleton, swinging.
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Careful searching through old junk shops and around antique markets may well produce endless ideas and inspiration from which you can work.
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Explore junk shops and markets for costume pearls and earrings to recreate this expensive look.
yard
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Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts.
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You might be able to get a cart-wheel of your own from a local bygone auction or junk yard .
■ VERB
eat
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Q: What should you avoid reading if you like to eat junk ?
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Chavez, at 33 and perhaps fighting for the last time, eats junk food, drinks beer and loves to party.
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This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food.
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But to tell the truth, the album makes a pretty good accompaniment for just sitting around and eating junk food.
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When I first left home at 17, I was a lot bigger because I used to eat loads of junk food.
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I go somewhere else and eat junk food and drink junk wine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a garage filled with junk
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a market stall selling junk and old clothes
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a pile of old junk
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Don't fill yourself up with junk , dinner's in an hour.
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Her cupboards were full of junk which she had accumulated over the years.
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I must clean out this cupboard - it's absolutely full of junk .
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They have so much junk in their yard. It makes the neighborhood look awful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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So when the company makes money, its junk soars, in anticipation of the windfall.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It would have been too expensive to fix the car, so we junked it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But before you junk that 2-or 3-year-old computer, consider an important alternative: upgrading.
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Closer to home, Rohr has junked its proposed new headquarters building in Chula Vista.
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For David Marquand's main mistake is to see the policy review as merely an exercise in junking outmoded policies.
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Wally's dad had the contract to clear them out, sort out what could be sold off and junk the rest.