junk mail

noun
1.
unsolicited commercial mail.
Origin
1950-55
Examples from the web for junk mail
  • One great thing about not changing your birth name, though, is that you can spot junk mail right away.
  • Recycle your own newspapers, magazine pages, or junk mail as gift wrap.
  • Security experts say cybercrime and junk mail may increase too.
  • They will know precisely what kind of advertising, coupons and junk mail to bombard users with.
  • Take a look at your own junk mail folder, paying careful attention to the subject lines.
  • Later he receives a letter that is definitely not junk mail.
  • We are hounded by telemarketers, spammed by e-mails and overwhelmed by unwanted junk mail.
  • Or wonder if unopened junk mail might contain anthrax.
  • She didn't elaborate immediately, as if she was trying to concentrate on tearing junk mail into several pieces.
  • Hoarding patients and a control group who didn't hoard brought their junk mail to the lab.
British Dictionary definitions for junk mail

junk mail

noun
1.
untargeted mail advertising goods or services
Slang definitions & phrases for junk mail

junk mail

noun phrase

Mail, usually third class, consisting of advertising circulars, appeals for money, etc, and sometimes addressed to ''resident'' (1950s+)


Idioms and Phrases with junk mail

junk mail

Third-class mail, such as unsolicited advertisements and flyers, that is sent indiscriminately. For example, While we were on vacation the front hall filled up with junk mail. [ c. 1950 ]