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[ noun ] sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid

Synonyms

settlings grounds

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

The hedge reeked of coffee dregs thrown against it .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

He was so long thinking that my mother had time to inspect her sherry for dregs .

She laughed a_little and tossed the dregs rakishly around in her glass .

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