throwaway
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
throwaway
adj 1: thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes";
"throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged
some thrown-away furniture" [syn: {cast-off(a)},
{discarded}, {throwaway(a)}, {thrown-away(a)}]
2: intended to be thrown away after use; "throwaway diapers"
n 1: (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned
and roams the streets [syn: {street arab}, {gamin},
{throwaway}]
2: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet)
intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to
all subscribers" [syn: {circular}, {handbill}, {bill},
{broadside}, {broadsheet}, {flier}, {flyer}, {throwaway}]
3: words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
throwaway \throw"a*way\ n.
1. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a
leaflet) intended for wide distribution.
Syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier,
flyer
[WordNet 1.5]
2. words spoken in a casual way with conscious underemphasis.
[WordNet 1.5]
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "throwaway":
castaway, castoff, consumable, deep six, discard, discarding,
disposable, disposal, dumping, elimination, expendable, jettison,
junking, no-deposit, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection,
removal, replaceable, scrapping, spendable
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