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drek

drek is the alternative spelling of dreck.

Meaning of dreck

Noun

dreck (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
    • Unfortunately, the conversation soon turned into a late-night freshman-year dorm-room debate, as he stumbled into a controversy of his own making by using Holocaust deniers and their appalling falsehoods as an example of how much dreck should be allowed on the platform.2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2020

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What is drek the alternative spelling of?
Drek is the alternative spelling of dreck.

Words near drek in the dictionary

  1. Dreiser
  2. Dreiserian
  3. Dreisers
  4. dreissenid
  5. dreissenids
  6. drek
  7. drekavac
  8. drekavacs
  9. drekkier
  10. drekkiest
  11. drekky

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