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white-bread

white-bread is the alternative form of white bread.

Meaning of white bread

Adjective

white bread (comparative more white bread, superlative most white bread)

  1. (US, colloquial, derogatory) Bland, boring; flavorless.
    • She's been living in her white bread world / As long as anyone with hot blood can / And now she's looking for a downtown man1983, Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”
  2. (US, derogatory, ethnic, often, slang, slur) Characteristic of or relating to middle-class white people.
    • [Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be.1993 November 15, Eric Pooley, “Can Giuliani Pull It Together?”, in New York, volume 26, number 45, page 53
    Synonyms:
    wonderbread

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Forms of white-bread

comparativemore white-bread
superlativemost white-bread

Questions about white-bread

What is white-bread the alternative form of?
White-bread is the alternative form of white bread.

Words near white-bread in the dictionary

  1. white-bellied tits
  2. white-billed diver
  3. white-billed divers
  4. white-blue-white flag
  5. white-box testing
  6. white-bread
  7. white-breasted hawk
  8. white-breasted hawks
  9. white-breasted nuthatch
  10. white-breasted nuthatches
  11. white-breasted sea eagle

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