bilge
📖 Definitions
noun
1. The bottom (inner or outer) part of a ship or a boat.
2. Water, oil, and waste that collect in the lowest part of a ship or a boat.
3. Nonsense; rubbish.
4. The bulging part of a barrel or a cask.
verb
1. To bulge or swell.
tr., intr. 2. To break a hole.
3. To spring a leak.
💬 Usage Examples
“Mr [Don] Blankenship is a doughy, charmless ex-convict who praised China’s ‘dictatorial capitalism’ and spent a year in prison for conspiring to evade federal mine-safety standards after an accident killed 29 men at one of his company’s mines. His campaign ads featured him staring into the camera while droning racist bilge.” The Centre Mostly Holds; The Economist (London, UK); May 12, 2018. “The boat crashed down on the rail instantly, bilged itself out of further action; and in so doing killed and injured several of the seamen engaged in hoisting it out.” Frank H.
Shaw; A Proud and Noble Tragedy: The Sinking of the Birkenhead; Sea Classics (Canoga Park, California); Oct 2001.