"piece of junk" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-piece of junk.wav Forms: pieces of junk [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|pieces of junk}} piece of junk (plural pieces of junk)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, junk.
    Sense id: en-piece_of_junk-en-noun-teeknAPl
  2. (derogatory) A bad person or thing; an object of poor quality. Tags: derogatory Synonyms: hunk of junk, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, jerk, trash Translations (bad person or thing): romu (Finnish), roska (english: thing) (Finnish), hulttio (Finnish), konna [person] (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-piece_of_junk-en-noun-cYvvnQ4p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 97 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 96 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of 'bad person or thing': 0 100

Inflected forms

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