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White Trash

"Laura, Ahmet is literally white trash"
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White trash

A term developed by African slaves in the early nineteenth century to describe the poor, landless whites with whom they dwelt in the South. According to historian Eugene Genovese, author of Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made, slaves developed the term as a way of looking down at poor whites, who lived in abject economic poverty, often in worse conditions than those inhabited by the slaves themselves. Although the poor whites were not considered property like the slaves, the slaves chose to view the so-called "white trash" as inferior to themselves, and members of a social echelon lower than the one they occupied themselves. (Genovese, 20-30; 58) This information does not necessarily change the the contemporary Urban Dictionary definition of the term, but it does change the term's origins and etemology. Rather than being a term made by the middle and upper class whites to define even the poor of their race as better than all non-whites, "white trash" was a term developed by poor non-whites, Afro-American slaves to contemptuously distance themselves from poor whites, whose social station they believed was even worse than their own.
Tom (a white male) : Look at those poor white people standing in line at the unemployment office, that should be proof enough that not all white people are wealthy.

John (a black male) : Indeed. They are what my great great grandmother would call White trash. I don't agree with the term myself; I'm just telling you what she would have said.
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"Ugh! He's cream trash."
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Pleb trash

Someone who lacks skill to a major level
Omg just killed this pleb trash in two rounds. Been.
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white trash thousandaire

Underachiever who bells out on the Regg.
My cousin is a White Trash Thousandaire. He is belling out on the regg.
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trailer trash suave

Slang Reference

Anyone who takes selfies of themselves in a bathroom and that picture has stuff like sex toys and toilets in the background and they post them on the internet and social media, that person possesses Trailer Trash Suave.

Other classic backgrounds are messy room, couch potato, and messy bathroom. While this is not a reflection on a person who lives in a trailer park this is more a reference to various kinds of people who think they are cool and are totally the opposite.

Should a person feel compelled to take a picture of themselves behind a goat to make that picture look like they are doing the goat, or other such stupid pictures and then post them on dating sites and social media pretending they are so funny, that person possess Trailer Trash Suave.

Other examples, Early Culyer of Squidbillies... the most extreme example.

Someone who lives the Stereotypical Trailer Park Lifestyle.

MOSTLY applied to White people but can apply to anyone exemplifying the Stereotype.

Also is a reference to a person who live a cheap welfare lifestyle.

Likewise a way of saying that a particular person has NO CLASS.

Also an INSULTING term for a vehicle that is a rolling junk pile.

Also a slang reference to person being a Drug Addict.
Example 1: Joe: Did you see Nick Argo's pics on that dating web site? Did you see the one with him in the bathroom leaning on the wall looking so cool and the toilet in the background that needed to be flushed?
Sidney: I got to say, that fool wonders why he never gets any dates? He has that Trailer Trash Suave thing going on.

Example 2: The way that tweaked out brother of yours acts he has some real Trailer Trash Suave going on. What a total cock blocker.

Example 3: Why the fuck do you think your Frankenbicycle is so cool? You built a bike from junk, so what? All it says to me is you got that Trailer Trash Suave going on! You can't even ride the piece of shit.
by Fractious1 November 24, 2017
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