Junk vs Crud - What's the difference?
junk | crud |
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
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(slang) Genitalia.
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(nautical) Salt beef.
Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
Dirt, filth or refuse.
(figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
Mixed impurities, especially corrosion products in nuclear reactor fuel.
A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to ski.
(euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
A contemptible person.
(slang, US, military, and, students) venereal disease, or (later) any disease.
A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
As a noun junk
is discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash or junk can be (nautical) a chinese sailing vessel.As a verb junk
is to throw away.As an acronym crud is
(programming|database) create, read, update, and delete.junk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).Noun
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk' hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck ' junk through all the hungry young cells.
- I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
- Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
- Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
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