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What (who) is junk yard - definition
Junk Yard (pinball)
PINBALL GAME
Junk Yard is a pinball game released by Williams Electronics in 1996. The game was advertised with the slogan "The meanest game in the whole darn town.
salvage yard
![Former [[British Rail]] locomotives awaiting disposal at the now-closed [[Swindon Works]], England, 1985](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scrap locos outside works.jpg?width=200 "Former [[British Rail]] locomotives awaiting disposal at the now-closed [[Swindon Works]], England, 1985")
![Former [[Pacific Electric Railway]] streetcars stacked at a junkyard awaiting destruction in the US, March 1956](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pacific-Electric-Red-Cars-Awaiting-Destruction.jpg?width=200 "Former [[Pacific Electric Railway]] streetcars stacked at a junkyard awaiting destruction in the US, March 1956")
![London Underground A Stock]] subway cars wait to be scrapped at [[CF Booth]], [[Rotherham]], England](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A60 stock booths.jpg?width=200 "London Underground A Stock]] subway cars wait to be scrapped at [[CF Booth]], [[Rotherham]], England")
![A car dismantling yard in [[Grimsby]], England](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Car Breakers Yard, Railway Street, Grimsby - geograph.org.uk - 532632.jpg?width=200 "A car dismantling yard in [[Grimsby]], England")
![Former [[British Rail]] diesel locomotives stacked at [[Vic Berry]], [[Leicester]] in October 1987](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/'The Stack' Vic Berry's 03-10-1987.JPG?width=200 "Former [[British Rail]] diesel locomotives stacked at [[Vic Berry]], [[Leicester]] in October 1987")
![A Scrap Car in [[Toronto]] Area](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scrap_Car_Removal_Toronto_1.jpg?width=200 "A Scrap Car in [[Toronto]] Area")
PLACE FOR STORAGE AND DISMANTLING OF USED AUTOMOBILES
Scrapyard; Scrap yard; Salvage yard; Junk yard; Automobile salvage; Auto wrecking; Wreck yard; Breakers yard; Auto wrecker; Junkpile; Junkyards; Auto salvage
¦ noun a place where disused machinery, vehicles, etc. are broken up and parts salvaged.
scrapyard
PLACE FOR STORAGE AND DISMANTLING OF USED AUTOMOBILES
Scrapyard; Scrap yard; Salvage yard; Junk yard; Automobile salvage; Auto wrecking; Wreck yard; Breakers yard; Auto wrecker; Junkpile; Junkyards; Auto salvage
also scrap yard
(scrapyards)
A scrapyard is a place where old machines such as cars or ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved. (BRIT; in AM, use junkyard
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Examples of use of junk yard
1. Along one side of Parliament Square, opposite Westminster Hall, is a junk–yard.
2. And two: The Scout proved that it wasn‘t quite ready for the junk yard.
3. "It looks like a junk yard, a series of broken–down angles that don‘t match each other.
4. Gigantic task The effect was of a multi–coloured junk–yard, punctuated by the bright blue of tarpaulins which covered what was left of any buildings left standing.
5. You don‘t have to sell the car to a junk yard or sell a vehicle." He also said more and more small–time thieves were operating without support from one of the so–called car–theft barons.