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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


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