junk food

1. 1.

   food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value

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Questions about junk food

What does junk food mean?

junk food means "food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value".

Is junk food a common word?

junk food is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.