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white trash

NOUN
(offensive) poor white people
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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

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

McGirt had already put clothes in plastic white trash bags.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 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