Definition of "white trash" []

• Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person or poor white people. (noun)
• Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a white person or white people perceived as being lazy and ignorant. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And he walked on the caper, white trash chutzpah carrying him through, no one informing the police powers that be that a dead man robbed the Happy Time Liquor Store, drove a stolen La Salle up to the front door of Sergeant Turner “Buzz” Meeks, then shot out his living room wall and escaped on foot."
• "We fancied ourselves “Alpine Bohemians,” and not the white trash we would have appeared to most people."