poor white trash noun2 •(US, offensive) A poor, uneducated white person or group of people of low social status.Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? — 1991 •(offensive, no longer used) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler.“Huccome po’ w’ite trash buy any niggers? Dey ain’ never owned mo’n fo’ at de mostes’.” — 1936