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Date: 1900-2000
Language: Yiddish
Origin: drek 'dirt, crap'

dreck

 noun
     
dreck [uncountable] American English informal
something that is of very bad quality:
Readers for publishing houses see a lot of good stuff and a lot of dreck.
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