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noun
Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: crap, junk, trash, cultch, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, rubbish, refuse, roughage, service item, shit, stuff, waste
Antonyms: none provided
noun
merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: schlock, shlock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: merchandise, ware, product
History
From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
