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Waterwolf | 19:43 Mon 09th Apr 2001 | Phrases & Sayings
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What does it mean to describe someone as 'white trash'?
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It's a derogatory term that originally referred to (usually) poor, uneducated, rural whites in the southern states of the USA, although now it's used for urban whites, too, and has started to be used with increasingly frequency in the UK.
08:46 Fri 13th Apr 2001
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origin (late 18c+ U.S.Black) a derogatory term for the poor white population of the Southern states of the USA ref. dictonary of slang
10:56 Wed 18th Apr 2001

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