junkshop

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noun

A shop selling miscellaneous items of questionable value.

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Meanings

nounjunkshop (plural junkshops)

plural junkshops

  1. A shop selling miscellaneous items of questionable value.

    Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here. He would ask if Ace had a job. He didn't, and he couldn't even claim he had come back to visit his unc, because Pop had been in his junkshop when the place burned down.

    1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

Origin

From junk + shop.

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APA

junkshop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/junkshop

MLA

“junkshop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/junkshop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “junkshop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/junkshop.

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