Junk may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Junk'' (film), a 2000 Japanese horror film
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J-U-N-K'', a 1920 American film
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''Junk'' (novel), by Melvin Burgess, 1996
* ''Junk'', a novel by
Christopher Largen
Music
Groups
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Junk (band), a British pop band
Albums
* ''Junk'', by
Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten (; born 4 December 1973) is a Dutch disc jockey, record producer and remixer from Rotterdam. He is well known for producing many pioneering trance tracks during the 1990s–2000s under his numerous aliases, including System F, Moon ...
, 2006
* ''Junk'', by
Jejune, 1997
* ''Junk'', by
Junk (band), 1995
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''Junk'' (M83 album), 2016
Songs
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"Junk" (song), written by Paul McCartney in 1970
* "Junk", song from Zico Chain's
''Food'' album
Other uses in arts and entertainment
* ''
Junk: Record of the Last Hero'', a shōnen manga series by Kia Asamiya
* ''
Junk: The Golden Age of Debt'', a play by Ayad Akhtar
Finance
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Junk bond
In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade by credit rating agencies. These bonds have a higher risk of default or other adverse credit events, ...
* Junk status, a debt
credit rating
A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting.
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People
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Bruno Junk
Bruno Junk (27 September 1929 – 22 September 1995) was an Estonian race walker. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won bronze medals on both occasions. He set a world record in the 15 km in 1951 (1:08:08.0 ...
(1929–1995), Estonian race walker, two-time Olympic bronze medal winner
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Janson Junk
Janson Randall Junk (born January 15, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut with the Los Angeles Angels in 2021.
Amateur career
Junk grew up in Federal ...
(born 1996), American baseball pitcher
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Sebastian Junk
Sebastian Junk (born 29 November 1983) is a German Paralympic judoka who competes in international level events. He has participated at five Paralympic Games and won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
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(born 1983), German Paralympic judoka
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Wilhelm Junk
Wilhelm Junk (3 February 1866, Prague – 3 December 1942, The Hague) was a noted Czech antiquarian bookseller in the field of natural history, and an entomologist.
Wilhelm Junk established his book dealership "Antiquariaat Junk", in 1899 in B ...
(1866–1942), Czech-born antiquarian bookseller and entomologist
Places
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Junk Bay
Junk Bay known in Chinese as "Tseung Kwan O" (; also transliterated as "Cheung Kwan O") is a bay in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. In the northern tip of the bay lies the Tseung Kwan O Village.
The Tseung Kwan O New Town, one ...
, Hong Kong
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Fat Tong Chau, Junk Island in English, a former island of Hong Kong
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Pulau Jong
Pulau Jong or Junk Island is a conical island about off the southern coast of Singapore. The small island lies north of Pulau Sebarok and the former Pulau Sakeng (now merged with Pulau Semakau). The island is uninhabited, undeveloped, and largel ...
or Junk Island, off the coast of Singapore
* Junk, an islet near
Hoy, Shetland
Hoy (Háey, Old Norse for 'high island')Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) ''Orkneyinga Saga''. Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). is a small island in Weisdale Voe, an arm of th ...
, Scotland
Slang
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Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a potent opioid mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Medical grade diamorphine is used as a pure hydrochloride salt. Various white and brow ...
* Human male
sex organ
A sex organ (or reproductive organ) is any part of an animal or plant that is involved in sexual reproduction. The reproductive organs together constitute the reproductive system. In animals, the testis in the male, and the ovary in the female, a ...
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Off-speed pitch, in baseball, also called junk
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Salt-cured meat, frequently called junk
Other uses
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Junk (ship)
A junk (Chinese: 船, ''chuán'') is a type of Chinese sailing ship with fully battened sails. There are two types of junk in China: northern junk, which developed from Chinese river boats, and southern junk, which developed from Austronesian ...
, a type of Chinese sailing vessel
* Junk, sperm whale equivalent of the
melon (cetacean)
The melon is a mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales. It focuses and modulates the animal's vocalizations and acts as a sound lens. It is thus a key organ involved in communication and echolocation.
Description
T ...
* Junk data, any file or byte of
data
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted ...
that does not serve any real purpose other than wasting space
See also
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Junk drawer A junk drawer or junkdrawer is a drawer used for storing small, miscellaneous, occasionally useful objects of little to no (or unclear) monetary value, and possibly significant sentimental value. Junk drawers are often located in residential kitche ...
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Junk food
"Junk food" is a term used to describe food that is high in calories from sugar and/or fat, and possibly also sodium, but with little dietary fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, or other important forms of nutritional value. It is also known as HF ...
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Junk mail (disambiguation)
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