[ noun ] sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid <noun.object>
The company may be scraping the barrel, but with Callas the dregs can still be as good as another singer's champagne.
Thus, the manager gradually gets left with the real dregs of his portfolio. Bottom-fishing will only work if two conditions are fulfilled; the area is sufficiently volatile, and the investor's timing is virtually perfect.
At a political seminar last Wednesday, Tsukamoto said that "only the dregs remain" in Latin America because "the good workers are enticed to the United States."
Dionisis Zouznazjialis hawks the dregs of a hoard he lugged from Kazakhstan seven months ago.
What we faced was not just some ordinary people who were misguided but also a rebellious clique and a large number of the dregs of society.