dreck

dreck

noun

Definition of DRECK

1

discarded or useless material <he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain>

Synonyms chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (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

2

that which is of low quality or worth <can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck “art”?>

Synonyms cheese, crapola [slang], dreck (also drek), muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe

Related Words camp, kitsch; claptrap, humbug, nonsense; bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey; mess, muddle, shambles

Variants of DRECK

dreck also drek