mudheap

English

Etymology

mud +‎ heap

Noun

mudheap (plural mudheaps)

1. A heap of mud; by extension, any pile of metaphorical detritus
   • 1988 January 22, Renaldo Migaldi, “Pamela Lillard & the Rubba Band”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Pamela Lillard's bluesy urban folk-rock lands her in a ballpark with Vega, Armatrading, Cockburn, and a few others who've rescued forgotten kernels of coolness from the mudheap of outdated singer-songwriter cliches […] .

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