Other forms: junkyards
A junkyard is a yard where scrap is piled up for resale. A car junkyard, search the junkyard, a junkyard dog.
Britain says scrapyard or breaker's yard. Most of a scrapped car is recycled, and pulling working parts off one is how old vehicles stay on the road. A junkyard dog is an American phrase for somebody vicious and territorial.
1nounjunkyardA yard where scrap is piled up for resale.
“He found an old engine at the junkyard and rebuilt it in his garage.”
junkyard is a yard.
From junk + yard.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA