dreck

noun

ˈdrek 

variants or less commonly drek

: trash, rubbish

Synonyms of dreck

• garbage
• debris
• trash
• junk
• rubbish
• dust

Examples of dreck in a Sentence

The movie was pure dreck.

he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain

Recent Examples on the Web

And, man, there’s a lot of dreck. — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025

Her potential to reimagine rap in her own image is too high to excuse these lapses into dreck. — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026

Even if a viewer doesn’t understand the underlying ideology, the memes can lead to more, and more overt, neo-Nazi dreck. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

That's contributing to the division of our country, along with social media, cable news, our foreign adversaries filling our social media feeds with a bunch of dreck. — CBS News, 17 May 2026

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

1905, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dreck

• beck
• breck
• check
• cheque
• czech
• deck
• fleck
• keck
• mech
• neck
• peck
• reck