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
The suspect carried a white trash bag, the surveillance footage showed.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022
We were these two white trash kids in the Oregon rain, walking two miles to the mall, to hang out on a Saturday because we're broke and have nothing else to do.
From Salon • May 26, 2020
Later, the owner posted a photo on Facebook of 13 bursting-full white trash bags and a thank you to Kanye: “Biggest sale EVER!!!!”
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2018
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
