Crossword clues for throwaway
throwaway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
throwaway \throw"a*way\ n.
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an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution.
Syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer
words spoken in a casual way with conscious underemphasis.
throwaway \throw"a*way\ a.
designed to be discarded after a single use; disposable.
spoken with deliberate underemphasis; as, a throwaway line in a play.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also throw-away, 1901 in reference to very low prices; by 1903 in reference to printed material meant to be read once then tossed, and to wasted votes; with reference to disposable consumer goods, attested from 1969. From the verbal phrase, attested from late 14c. in the sense "reject, cast from oneself," from throw (v.) + away (adv.). More literal meaning of "dispose of as useless, release from one's possession as unneeded" is first recorded 1520s. Throw-away society attested from 1967.
Wiktionary
a. 1 disposable; intended for a single use prior to being discarded. 2 extemporaneous; off the cuff. 3 Selected or used without care or attention. (rfex) n. Something temporary or disposable.
WordNet
adj. 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)]
intended to be thrown away after use; "throwaway diapers" [syn: throwaway(p)]
n. a homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets [syn: street arab, gamin]
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]
words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
Wikipedia
Throwaway may refer to:
- Disposable, single use
- "Throwaway", an episode of “The Shield”
Usage examples of "throwaway".
She works up detailed horoscopes, breeds Siamese cats, instructs in decoupage, gets around on a Honda and writes a weekly society gossip column for a throwaway called the Lauderdale Bystander.
Warren was deciding it was time for a drink, and we stood for a while in the fine warm night near one of the bars drinking Bacardi and Coke out of throwaway cartons.
TV programmes and films, even the casual science -the throwaway lines that are not essential to a plot already innocent of science - is done incompetently.
Glossary 203 M16 rifle with 40mm grenade launcher attached 2 i/c second in command 66 lightweight, throwaway antitank rocket AAA or Triple A antiaircraft artillery APC Armored Personnel Carrier AWACS Airborne Warning And Control System beasting army slang for a beating bergen pack carried by British farces on active service berm entrenchment for tank Big Four the only four pieces of information which, under the Geneva Convention, an enemy is allowed to ask for: number, rank, name, date of birth bone (adj.
Worn-out shuttle main engines, too beat-up to be human-rated anymore, are being recycled: you can make a pretty useful throwaway booster out of a shuttle tailplane and a cargo pallet.
Grace would have thought Harmony a cross-dresser or even a transsexual, if it hadn't been for a throwaway comment she had once made about having a miscarriage when she was fifteen and never getting pregnant again.
Using a throwaway number cruncher instead of hooking in to the mainframe seemed a reasonable way to keep the data away from him, so long as I didn't ever network it with any other system.
Windex, a roll of gray paper towels, and a box of throwaway surgical gloves.
The nine terrorists had all been throwaways, as surely marked for death as the Hezbol-lah fanatics who'd gone strolling down Israeli streets in clothing made by DuPont--that was the CIA joke about it, though in fact the plastic explosives had probably come from the Skoda Works in the former Czechoslovakia.
He has, after all, electively reincarnated for a reason: Sirhan's throwaway comment about the cat caught his attention.
The XLR-99 engine was a throttleable, restartable, reusable rocket engine, with almost as much thrust as the throwaway Redstone booster which had thrown Shepard and Grissom up on their first Mercury suborbital lobs.
I just' - a slack hand emerged, making a throwaway gesture - 'just wanted you to know.