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drek

dreck

noun

Definition of DRECK

: trash, rubbish

Variants of DRECK

dreck also drek \ˈdrek\

Examples of DRECK

The movie was pure dreck.
<he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain>

Origin of DRECK

Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec; akin to Old English threax rubbish

First Known Use: 1922

Related to DRECK

Synonyms: chaff, deadwood, debris, garbage (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste

Related Words: crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash; detritus, remains, rubble, ruins; dump, scrap heap; lumber, odds and ends, trumpery; flotsam, jetsam, wreckage; castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway; nothing, straw, two bits

Near Antonyms: catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable; booty, find, salvage

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Rhymes with DRECK

beck, Cech, check, Czech, deck, Eck, fleck, heck, Lech, lek, neck, pec, peck, reck, sec, sneck, spec, speck, trek, wreak, wreck

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