dreck
noun/drek/
/drek/
[uncountable] (slang, especially North American English)- 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’.Definitions on the go
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