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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Worthless, distasteful, or nonsensical material.
  • noun Rubbish; trash.

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  • noun trash, junk; worthless merchandise, crap.

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  • noun merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German, dirt, trash, and Yiddish drek, excrement, both from Middle High German drec, dung, filth, from Old High German; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Yiddish דרעק ("dirt, feces") compare German Dreck.

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