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Examples of dreck in a Sentence
The movie was pure dreck.
he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain
Recent Examples of dreck from the Web
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But among all the dreck over the years, one movie-game has stood out as an unlikely example of quality: Spider-Man 2, released by Activision in 2004.
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Origin and Etymology of dreck
Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec; akin to Old English threax rubbish
First Known Use: 1922
DRECK Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of dreck for English Language Learners
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: something that is of very bad quality : trash or rubbish
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