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Throwaway

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Noun

1. gamin, street arab, throwaway

(sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets

2. bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

Example Sentences:
'he mailed the circular to all subscribers'

3. throwaway

words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis

Adjective

4. cast-off, discarded, throwaway, thrown-away

thrown away

Example Sentences:
'wearing someone's cast-off clothes'
'throwaway children living on the streets'
'salvaged some thrown-away furniture'

5. throwaway

intended to be thrown away after use

Example Sentences:
'throwaway diapers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Throwaway

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adjective (prenominal)
1. 
said or done incidentally, esp for rhetorical effect; casual
a throwaway remark
2. 
a. 
anything designed to be discarded after use rather than reused, refilled, etc; disposable
b. 
(as modifier)
a throwaway carton
noun
3. mainly US and Canadian
a handbill or advertisement distributed in a public place
verb throw away (tr, adverb)
4. 
to get rid of; discard
5. 
to fail to make good use of; waste
to throw away all one's money on horses

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Throwaway

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noun
1. 
a leaflet, handbill, etc. distributed as in the streets or from house to house
2. 
anything designed or intended to be discarded after use
3. 
a remark made or made as if casually
4. 
something included only to fill a gap
adjective
5.  US
designed to be discarded after use
a throwaway bottle
6. 
delivered in a deliberately offhand manner, as a line of dialogue in a play
7. 
offhand; casual

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Throwaway

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n. pl. throw·a·ways
1. Something designed or likely to be discarded after use, as a free handbill distributed on the street.
2. A child or teenager who has been rejected, ejected, or abandoned by parents or guardians and lives on the streets.
adj.
1.
a. Designed or intended to be discarded after use: throwaway packaging.
b. Readily discarding things: a throwaway society.
c. Having been rejected, ejected, or abandoned by parents or guardians: throwaway children living on the streets.
2. Written or delivered in a low-key or offhand manner: "a sentence fragment or quirky throwaway metaphor" (Joyce Carol Oates).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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