white trash
Example Sentences
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The antagonistic Slim Shady, with his peroxide-blond hair and everyman blue jeans, stemmed from Eminem's self-described "white trash" upbringing.
From BBC • May 31, 2024
Unwittingly, he had tossed the napkin into the white trash bag, not realizing his wife had cleaned the rings and wrapped them in the napkin to dry.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022
The suspect carried a white trash bag, the surveillance footage showed.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022
Seven white trash can liners stretching out from the leg of a broken chair, in “Mischief,” are a magical kind of shadow brighter than the object casting them.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2020
The overseers and patterollers in the time of slavery were called poor white trash by the slaves.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various
