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Definition of dreck noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dreck

noun
 
/drek/
 
/drek/
[uncountable] (slang, especially North American English)
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  1. something that you think is of very bad quality
    • The movie is utter dreck.
    Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Yiddish drek ‘filth, dregs’, from a Germanic base shared by Old English threax; probably related to Greek skatos ‘dung’.
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