white trash

white trash
n
a.
poor whites living in the southern states of the USA. A term coined by black speakers in the mid-19th century to refer to their neighbours, either pejoratively or ruefully. The term was also used by whites and survives into the early 21st century; it is often used with connotations of degeneracy and squalor.
See also trailer-trash
b.
the decadent rich or sophisticated individuals, the 'jet set' or their hangers-on and imitators. The phrase has been extended to refer contemptuously to cosmopolitan socialites (often in the phrase 'International White Trash').
► Eurotrash is a derivative.
► 'She came from South Los Angeles, near Watts, every day and her parents had saved all their lives to buy her In among this rich white trash.' (Julie Burchill, The Face magazine, March 1984)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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