poor white trash

  • 11white trash — N UNCOUNT COLL (disapproval) Some people use white trash to refer to poor white people who they think are worthless. [AM, OFFENSIVE] ...a place peopled by illiterate poor white trash …

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  • 12poor white — noun Etymology: poor (I) : a member of an inferior or underprivileged white social group often taken to be offensive if these bad farming practices persisted … some settlers were in danger of becoming poor whites Farmer s Weekly (South Africa) *… …

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  • 13white trash — American, very informal an offensive way of describing poor white people who are not educated. These are the poor white trash that the middle class don t want to know about …

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  • 14white-trash — white trash, Slang (derogatory). a white person of low social status living in poverty or poor conditions. –white trash, adjective …

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  • 15white trash — white′ trash′ n. usage: This term is a slur and should be avoided. It is used with disparaging intent and is perceived as insulting. 1) off soc (a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of the class of poor whites, esp. in the southern U.S.) …

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  • 16white trash — n [U] AmE informal an insulting expression used to talk about white people who are poor and uneducated …

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  • 17white trash — noun uncount OFFENSIVE an extremely offensive word for white people who are poor and badly educated …

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  • 18white trash — ► NOUN N. Amer. derogatory ▪ poor white people …

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  • 19white trash — ☆ white trash n. Slang a poor, ignorant white person, esp. of Appalachia or the South, or such persons collectively: an insulting or derogatory term …

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  • 20white trash — n a. poor whites living in the southern states of the USA. A term coined by black speakers in the mid 19th century to refer to their neighbours, either pejoratively or ruefully. The term was also used by whites and survives into the early 21st… …

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