junk heap

Questions about junk heap

What does junk heap mean?

junk heap means "an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter".

What is another word for junk heap?

Close synonyms include garbage heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is junk heap a common word?

junk heap 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.