Meanings
plural junkdrawers
- alternativeAlternative spelling of junk drawer.
My heart does not have to be a junkdrawer full of worries and doubts.
2006, Phil Smouse, Jesus Wants All of Me, page 142 more examples
In as many drawers in my house as there are demon days in a year, you may find old candles laid away for the weird of a winter storm ripping power lines, or for a record-breaking summer night with the thrum of half a million air conditioners threatening a power blackout like the one that once caught us groping in darkness, with two dead flashlights and a junkdrawer choking with nylon cord, piano wire, screws, Band Aids, AA batteries, sewing machine oil, but no candle.
1993, Edmund Pennant, Askance and Strangely: New and Selected Poems, page 45The flags register is a veritable junkdrawer of disjointed bits of information and it's tough (and perhaps misleading) to just sit down and describe all of them in detail at once.
1990, Jeff Duntemann, Assembly language from square one: for the PC AT and compatibles, page 188
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