So I was reading a fascinating story in the New York Times today when it abruptly ended with a peculiar sentence:

“Mr. Lorello noted in his confession that most of what he stole was not particularly valuable (some of his items sold for as little as $10). Most of the artifacts were known among dealers as trash, he wrote, although he used a trashier word than trash.”

Please don’t keep us in suspense, Eric. What word did he use? The only ones I can think of at the moment are synonymous with excrement but surely that is only because I have a limited imagination.