Junk vs Dope - What's the difference?
junk | dope |
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 7
(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.
(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,
(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
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(uncountable, slang) Information.
* What's the latest dope on the stock market?
(countable, slang) A stupid person.
(slang) To affect with drugs.
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
(slang) To use drugs.
(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
Dope is a synonym of junk.
In lang=en terms the difference between junk and dope
is that junk is a fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk while dope is great, amazing or extraordinary.In transitive terms the difference between junk and dope
is that junk is to throw away while dope is to treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).As an adjective dope is
great, amazing or extraordinary.junk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).Noun
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- 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
- (Lowell)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* junk bond * junk bottle * junk DNA * junk drawer * junk food * junk hook * junkie * junk mail * junk ring * junkroom * junk science * junkshop * junk vat * junk wad * junkyardSynonyms
* (throw away) bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) junco, from (etyl) djong (Malay (adjong)).References
dope
English
Noun
- Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slapVerb
Adjective
(er)- That party was dope !