Junkshop

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From junk + shop.

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