Throwaway - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈθrəʊəweɪ|
Brit.
|ˈθrəʊəweɪ|
noun
- (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets (syn: gamin)
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution (syn: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill)
- words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution (syn: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill)
- words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
adjective
- thrown away (syn: cast-off, discarded)
throwaway children living on the streets
- intended to be thrown away after usethrowaway diapers
Extra examples
It was only a throwaway comment.
He claims people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the article.
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