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What (who) is junk shop - definition
junk shop
¦ noun informal a shop selling second-hand goods or inexpensive antiques.
Junk shop
A junk shop is a retail outlet similar to a thrift store which sells mostly used goods at cheap prices. A low-quality antique shop may border on being a junk shop.
Junk fax
UNSOLICITED ADVERTISING VIA FAX
Junk faxes; Fax broadcast
Junk faxes are a form of telemarketing where unsolicited advertisements are sent via fax transmission. Junk faxes are the faxed equivalent of spam or junk mail.
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Junk shop
A junk shop is a retail outlet similar to a thrift store which sells mostly used goods at cheap prices. A low-quality antique shop may border on being a junk shop.
Examples of use of junk shop
1. None of the furniture would fetch 10p in a British junk shop.
2. Spotting a fake amphora priced at 3 in the window of a junk shop, Sampson said: I bet I can get that for 1.
3. He found the garishly–painted bird ornaments in a junk shop and commissioned a ceramicist to turn them into massive examples.
4. Another hotly fancied candidate was Jim Lambie, for the garishly painted bird ornaments he found in a junk shop and laid out on a Technicolor floor that looked like a zany ‘60s happening.
5. It took more than 18 years, for instance, before she broke her silence to confirm that her beautiful daughter Petrina was fathered by disgraced former Tory Minister Jonathan Aitken. (Petrina uncovered the link after noticing her uncanny resemblance to Aitken‘s twin girls.) When Soraya‘s diaries and photo albums turned up in a London junk shop, she pleaded for them not to be published.