bilge
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If you have ever sat at a restaurant, marveling at the bilge offered on the kids’ menu and wondering how on earth we got here, “Picky” has the answers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The ship is built in sections, then joined together on the slipway, supported by keel blocks, bilge blocks, wedges and "shores" - heavy lengths of timber.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024
“I’m just thrown away here — a nobody,” the sailor who was assigned to clean the bilge said in an interview.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022
Today’s censors argue that work by artists who spew antisemitic bilge or foolish covid-19 policies should disappear.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022
What a lot of bilge I could think up at night.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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