white trash
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9.9
- noun
- /waɪt træʃ/
- Slur
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[término ofensivo para personas blancas de clase baja]
- When he called me white trash, I felt both insulted and angry.
- poor white trash
The other day a girl referred to me as white trash and, and that kind of made me mad.
- The other day a girl referred to me as white trash and, and that kind of made me mad.
- A lot of people, he said, would describe the neighborhood he grew up in as hillbilly, a redneck or white trash or the sticks.
- Also, we grew up dirt poor white trash like borrowing money to buy food.
- I think more at that time in like the white, white trash, the, you know, white suburban.
- Just a bunch of straight dub teasy boy white trash out there.
- And we went from being, you know, trailer park kids, a truly living in a trailer, white trash rednecks.
- I don't know if that word means anything to anyone, but my best translation would be white trash mashers with a little more Zing to it than that.
- I don't have anything in common with a the white trash girl who wants to box, but boy, did she have a want.
Examples
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If you looked in the dictionary under "poor white trash".. a picture of Early and Adele would have been there.
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We're the white trash of the gay world, a group that it's socially acceptable to not accept.
Academic text (2005) -
The other day a girl referred to me as white trash and, and that kind of made me mad.
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We have a friend whose sister has always been a little on the white trash side.
Blog text (26) -
Some white trash stole a couple of our dogs last year.
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You think we're trash, is that it? We're white trash, is that it?
Fiction book (1994) -
Also, we grew up dirt poor white trash like borrowing money to buy food.
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Poor white trash, that was him, and that's me.
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Levittown was (and maybe still is?) the white trash capital of the Northeast.
Blog text (24) -
The derogatory designations of "white trash" and "hillbilly" assigned to poor Appalachians complicate the privileges usually attached to whiteness.
Academic text (2014)
Antonyms
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Morphology
The compound meaning is directly compositional: 'white' refers to White people and 'trash' is a derogatory term for people viewed as worthless, so a learner who knows both words can infer it is an insulting label for White people. Although the phrase carries offensive and socio‑cultural connotations (and regional usage may vary), the basic derogatory sense is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
White trash may come from comparing poor white people to trash, meaning garbage with no value. So, today it is a strong, offensive way to call poor or working-class White people 'worthless'.