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Definition of junk : 1. A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
2. A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.
3. Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
4. Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
5. Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

Synonyms:

tear apart, throw out, altercate, pan, dump, rubble, smack, dust, chuck, heroin, dispose of, quarrel, scag, diacetylmorphine, argufy, miscellany, shit, rummage, stuff, ditch, odds and ends, H, keep, dispute, horse, throw away

discard, reject, clip, disclaim, snip, blacklist, vomit, curtail, ejaculate, eject, shed, discharge, abandon, seep, exclude, cut, exude, chop, check, emit, cull, jilt, blackball, excrete, scrap, excise, disapprove, shear, crop, exhaust, oppugn, drain, belch, disgorge, erupt, secrete, deep-six, evacuate, jettison, vent, deny, trash, disallow, bar, lop, eliminate, spew

effluent, despoilment, residue, refuse, offal, debris, filings, chaff, detritus, excrement, slop, leakage, garbage, decay, waste, remnant, rubbish, dejecta

Usage examples:

• I left in the junk with Mr Herniman twenty- four tons, seven cathayes, two quarterns, eight pounds. - "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII.", Robert Kerr.
• The loan would be spent on more junk. - "The Man Who Staked the Stars", Charles Dye.
• Course Gussie hasn't fed me any of that junk, and it's been lots of fun traveling this way. - "Heart of Gold", Ruth Alberta Brown.