castoff

See also: cast-off and cast off

English

Alternative forms

• cast-off

Etymology

Deverbal from cast off.

Noun

castoff (plural castoffs)

1. Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.
   • 2009, Leeana Tankersley, Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places, page 13:

     Found art is created when odd, disparate, unlikely, even long-abandoned castoffs are put together with other similarly unexpected remnants to create something new and, if all goes as planned, lovely.

Adjective

castoff (not comparable)

1. discarded, rejected.

Anagrams

• off-cast, offcast