drek
- noun
- /drɛk/
- Offensive
- Wow, there's a lot of drek in there still, even after what must have been a lot of clean-up.
Examples
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After reading that review, I realized the book was just another piece of drek that I should avoid.
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They are, after all, the purveyors of Honey Boo Boo Child and other such redneck drek, which threatens to completely drain our minds.
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Not a few of us have been suffering through the drek known as Spirit and Song.
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Skip the last and fifth season -- drek.
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Granted, it has interesting characters and witty dialogue, but everything else is drek.
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You have bought into every single propagandist bilge-drek the Arab political machine has spewed out.
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I confess to skimming some posts, but overall I will acknowledge some resistance to self-publishing, not at any author in particular, but because self-publishing results in an even greater flood of drek released upon the market.
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The movie was full of drek and wasn't worth the time it took to watch.
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I can't believe people enjoy that drek; it's just poorly made and unoriginal.
Synonyms
Dirt and disgusting things that make a place very dirty
Poor-quality items that are not worth buying
Waste material that forms on the surface of melted metal and is removed
Something of very poor quality not worth buying
Dirty mess or rubbish that makes a place unpleasant
Antonyms
How Worthless
Surface Forms
Etymology
Drek comes from Yiddish and German dreck, which means 'dirt' or 'filth'. So when people call a film or book drek, they mean it is 'trash' or very low quality.