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- noun pile of waste matter from coal mining etc
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Examples
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Devotion is great but devotion with no quality cut-off has made the field one great big slagheap of Shit Lit schlockbusters, for all the diamonds buried in it.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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Devotion is great but devotion with no quality cut-off has made the field one great big slagheap of Shit Lit schlockbusters, for all the diamonds buried in it.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Another month, another small slagheap from my visits to used-bookstores.
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In July, 2004, p2pnet quoted Janis as saying, “The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay — Anyone who thinks otherwise should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history.”
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The European Carhartt clothing line is, if anything, anti-work, a slagheap of thrift-shop dishevelment—letterman cardigans and puffy thermal vests—designed for inked-up millennials.
My Carhartt Detroit Jacket Dan Neil 2011
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After a century of conflict, a dozen worlds had been ravaged, Ashkelon was reduced to a slagheap, and the Sons were all dead, along with over twenty million others.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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In July, 2004, p2pnet quoted Janis as saying, “The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay — Anyone who thinks otherwise should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history.”
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Surprising nearly everyone, this enormous slagheap of debt -- rising up by the side of the glittering new pools of financial wealth -- turned out to be more than just an aesthetic problem.
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So irrespective of what the polls look like, we have no choice but to show up en masse and unequivocally reject Republicans like Sarah Palin -- hurling them onto the slagheap of history next to Orange Alerts, HUAC and the Willie Horton ad.
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But the same headline could be read as Marxist discourse: Google as exploitative capitalist, librarians as honest proletarians, used up and tossed on the slagheap of history.
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