dreck

noun

ˈdrek How to pronounce dreck (audio)
variants also drek
Definition of drecknext
1
as in garbage
discarded or useless material he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain

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2
as in junk
that which is of low quality or worth can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck "art"?

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Recent Examples of dreck 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 And, man, there’s a lot of dreck. — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 Told in flashback, the film traces the progress of producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) from B-movie dreck to A-list Oscar winners to box office flops. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dreck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreck
  1. garbage
  2. junk
  3. debris
  4. cheese
  5. trash
  6. rubbish
  7. dust
Noun
  • Store garbage in secure, air-tight containers inside a garage or storage area.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 Nov. 2026
  • According to Furkids Animal Rescue and Shelters, the dogs had been living in darkness on floors covered in inches of feces, with dead animals discarded in garbage bags.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of garbage
Noun
  • Sometimes, Stevens asks a building for permission to go through its trash, marketing himself as a junk removal service.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr.,Mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Reading it is like opening the hall closet and having the contents of an antique junk shop, laced with spiky and rusted farm implements, spill out and maim your dog.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of junk
Noun
  • Construction and demolition debris accounts for half of all the solid waste generated in the city which is roughly about 100,000 to 150,000 tons a year.
    — Anne Makovec, CBS News, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The three-story building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue — with a medical-uniforms store on the ground floor and a three-bedroom apartment above — had indeed fallen, killing eight people and trapping several more in the debris.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of debris
Noun
  • Top it with your favorite gravy or pan sauce, and eat it alongside sides like mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, or mac and cheese.
    — Natalia Vela, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Fold it into pasta sauce, risotto, mac and cheese, soup or stew.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of cheese
Noun
  • Nominations for the 69th Grammy Awards will be announced Monday morning, capping a year-long pop-music season in which new stars rose, old hands returned and Taylor Swift dropped a song about Cleveland that even people in Ohio decided was trash.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • This year’s event gathered nearly 11,000 pounds of trash, Getz said, and 1,625 volunteers contributed 15,000 volunteer hours.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of trash
Noun
  • South Africans voted this week in local polls that determine which parties get to control major cities and local municipal districts that are responsible for the delivery of basic services like water, road maintenance and rubbish removal.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The robots are expected to handle several tasks, including stocking and organizing shelves, preparing coffee and hot food, greeting customers, and clearing rubbish.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of rubbish
Noun
  • Covered in white dust, Hilda walked home and checked in with family, both in the city and her native Dominican Republic.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2026
  • The study of these objects, some of the largest structures in the cosmos, can reveal how matter came together across the larger network of gas, dust and dark matter called the cosmic web.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of dust

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“Dreck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreck. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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