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Throwaway   /θrˈoʊəwˌeɪ/   Listen
Throwaway

noun
1.
(sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets.  Synonyms: gamin, street arab.
2.
An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution.  Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill.
3.
Words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis.
adjective
1.
Thrown away.  Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away.  "Throwaway children living on the streets" , "Salvaged some thrown-away furniture"
2.
Intended to be thrown away after use.





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"Throwaway" Quotes from Famous Books



... our glorious privilege of doing and saying exactly what we like. To-day the pressure of the war has turned us into the willing subjects of a despotism. We tumble over each other in our haste to throwaway the liberties which we used to consider vital to our being; and some of us have been not merely the victims, but the active agents, of an administrative system which we believe to be necessary for the ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell
... manifests itself under strange and unexpected circumstances, and this black night of January 23, 1919, proved no exception to the rule. Here and there some comrade would throwaway a prized possession to make more room for necessary food or clothing in his pack or pocket. Some other comrade would instantly grab it up and feverishly struggle to get it tied onto his pack or person, little realizing that long before the next thirty hours ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... man, watchful among the warm sweet fumes of Graham Lemon's, placed a throwaway in ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... "in knowing where to invest. I've known people throwaway their money because they were too consequential to take Sellers' advice. Others, again, have made their pile on taking it. I've looked over the ground; I've been studying it for twenty years. You can't put your finger on a spot in the map of Missouri that I don't know as if I'd ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 2. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner


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