"junkdrawer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: junkdrawers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} junkdrawer (plural junkdrawers)
  1. Alternative spelling of junk drawer Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: junk drawer
    Sense id: en-junkdrawer-en-noun-Rnxx1xBu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "In as many drawers in my house as there are demon days in a year, you may find old candles laid away for the weird of a winter storm ripping power lines, or for a record-breaking summer night with the thrum of half a million air conditioners threatening a power blackout like the one that once caught us groping in darkness, with two dead flashlights and a junkdrawer choking with nylon cord, piano wire, screws, Band Aids, AA batteries, sewing machine oil, but no candle.",
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          "ref": "1990, Jeff Duntemann, Assembly language from square one: for the PC AT and compatibles, page 188:",
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