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junk shop

noun

  1. a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
  2. derogatory.
    a shop selling antiques


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Example Sentences

Fortuitously, I spotted a stack of crumbling issues of a publication named Physical Culture in a junk shop in Ithaca, New York.

Then bit by bit, he unloaded his mind, which appeared full of little things, like a junk shop.

The rest of the house bears a close resemblance to an ecclesiastical junk shop.

It is disheartening to the amateur to see his gallery gradually assuming the similitude of a common or a junk-shop.

Scarcely a day passed that Willy did not visit a junk shop on the Bowery, or in the Jewish quarter.

He kept a junk shop very near where I used to live way out west.

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