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[Noun] | "de*tri*tus" | \ di-ˈtrī-təs \
1: loose material (such as rock fragments or organic particles) that results directly from disintegration
2: a product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away : debris
3: miscellaneous remnants : odds and ends
Origin: 1802 ;
Borrowed from French détritus, borrowed from Latin dētrītus, past participle of dēterere "to wear away, impair," from dē- {see: |de-|de-} + terere "to rub, grind, wear down" {mat|trite|};
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[Noun] | "detritus"
1: the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed;
* e.g., " ... the expanse of tree stumps represented the detritus of a vast forest that had been mercilessly clear-cut "
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# 1 - { detritus:1296613 }
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[ "detritus" ]
1: Stuff left behind, shit that no one wants. From Latin. Often used when the speaker expects that the listener won't know what the word means. This word is commonly used to describe the pile of bones and feathers that the hawk leaves behind after he eats the pigeon.
* e.g., ... * Is that your detritus there?
# 2 - { detritus:5756133 }
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[ "detritus" ]
1: A useless person, someone that fails to be good at necessarily anything. Trash.
* e.g., ... After her career collapsed, Lindsey Lohan became detritus.
# 3 - { digital detritus:5248944 }
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[ "digital detritus" ]
1: The thousands of email addresses, blogs, GeoCities sites, AngelFire and Tripod pages that are floating around cyberspace, neglected by creators who have forgotten the passwords to the accounts.
* e.g., ... I made a GeoCities page when I was in high school and have no idea what the URL is, it's just another piece of digital detritus now.
# 4 - { Detritus Dave:13247236 }
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[ "Detritus Dave" ]
1: A man who’s liver is quickly decomposing due to a constant flow of IPA’s.
* e.g., ... Detritus Dave just got off work and is heading to the bar to get his fix.
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