Junk may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Junk'' (film), a 2000 Japanese horror film * '' J-U-N-K'', a 1920 American film * ''Junk'' (novel), by Melvin Burgess, 1996 * ''Junk'', a novel by Christopher Largen * '' Junk: Record of the Last Hero'', a shōnen manga series by Kia Asamiya * '' Junk: The Golden Age of Debt'', a play by Ayad Akhtar

Music

Junk (band) Junk is a British pop rock band. Their song "Life Is Good," first recorded in the U.S. when they were called Ritalin, has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, such as '' Agent Cody Banks,'' ''The Benchwarmers'', '' A Modern Twain Story: The P ...

, a British pop band * Junk (nightclub), in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England

Albums

* ''Junk'', by

Ferry Corsten Ferry Corsten OON (; born 4 December 1973) is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer. He is well known for producing many pioneering trance tracks during the 1990s–2000s under his numerous aliases, including System F, Moonman, Pulp Victim an ...

, 2006 * ''Junk'', by Jejune, 1997 * ''Junk'', by

, 1995 * ''Junk'' (M83 album), 2016

Songs

* "Junk" (song), released by Paul McCartney in 1970 * "Junk", song from Bronski Beat's album ''The Age of Consent'' (album) * "Junk", song from Zico Chain's album ''Food'' (Zico Chain album)

Finance

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 eve ...

* 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). It is the practice of predicting or forecasting the ability of a supposed debtor to pay back the debt or default. The ...

People

* Bruno Junk (1929–1995), Estonian race walker, two-time Olympic bronze medal winner * Janson Junk (born 1996), American baseball pitcher * Sebastian Junk (born 1983), German Paralympic judoka * Wilhelm Junk (1866–1942), Czech-born antiquarian bookseller and entomologist

Places

Junk Bay Junk Bay, also known by its Chinese transliteration Tseung Kwan O or 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 o ...

, Hong Kong * Fat Tong Chau, Junk Island in English, a former island of Hong Kong *

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 larg ...

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

* Rubbish (disambiguation) **

Waste Waste are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor Value (economics), economic value. A wast ...

Garbage Garbage, trash (American English), rubbish (British English), or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or ...

Junk shop A junk shop is a retail outlet similar to a thrift store which sells mostly used goods at cheap prices. A low-quality antique shop may border on being a junk shop. Shoppers who frequent junk shops are often referred to as "junkers", "pickers", ...

items, antique goods for retail sale or trade ** Junkyard scrap, used automobile and machine parts for sale or trade *

Heroin Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the Opium, dried latex of the Papaver somniferum, opium poppy; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its eupho ...

* Human male sex organ *

Off-speed pitch In baseball, an off-speed pitch is a pitch thrown at a slower speed than a fastball. Breaking balls and changeups are the two most common types of off-speed pitches. Very slow pitches which require the batter to provide most of the power on con ...

, in baseball, also called junk *

Salt-cured meat Salting is the preservation of food with dry edible salt.

, frequently called junk

Other uses

Junk (ship) A junk () is a type of China, Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat Transom (nautical), transom, watertight Bulkhead (partition), bulkheads, and a flat-bottomed design. They are also characteristically buil ...

, a type of Chinese sailing vessel * Junk, a sperm whale equivalent of the

melon (cetacean) The melon is a mass of adipose tissue found in the foreheads 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 Animal echolocation, echoloca ...

* Junk data, any file or byte of

data Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted for ...

that does not serve any real purpose other than wasting space *

Junk DNA Junk DNA (non-functional DNA) is a DNA sequence that has no known biological function. Most organisms have some junk DNA in their genomes—mostly pseudogenes and fragments of transposons and viruses—but it is possible that some organ ...

, generic material that does not code for any protens