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white trash
noun
an impoverished or anti-social white person or persons; originally, and still, the poverty-stricken white population of the southern US US, 1831
Originally black usage; derogatory; abbreviates to “trash” (rubbish).- When good old Buck, of Buck and Bubbles, was driving along down South in his big Cadillac and dared to challenge the supremacy of the white race by passing a couple of white trash in a dinky old rattletrap Ford, he spent the night in jail[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 207, 1946
- Hoe-hands. Cotton-pickers. White trash. — Jim Thompson, The Kill-Off, p. 47, 1957
- Algren’s book opens with one of the best historical descriptions of American white trash ever written. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 157, 1966
- “We got white trash, you ever heard anyone talk about Black trash.” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 211, 1971
- Do you care to tell me what Mrs. White-trash and her stupid daughter are doing in my house? — Cruel Intentions, 1999
- They were scum. White trash. The white niggers which infested every civilised nation. He despised them all. — John King, White Trash, p. 306, 2001
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