junk food

junk food

noun

Definition of JUNK FOOD

1

: food that is high in calories but low in nutritional content

2

: something that is appealing or enjoyable but of little or no real value <the ultimate in junk food for young minds — Cleveland Amory>

Examples of JUNK FOOD

1. worrying about kids eating too much junk food
2. eating too many junk foods

First Known Use of JUNK FOOD

1960

Rhymes with JUNK FOOD

allude, blood feud, collude, conclude, delude, denude, elude, exclude, extrude, exude, fast-food, health food, include, intrude, obtrude, occlude, plant food, postlude, preclude, prelude, protrude, quaalude, seafood, seclude, subdued, transude, unglued