white-bread

Plain and boring. Possibly offensive if used in reference to a certain class of white people. Used before a noun. We need to swap out your white-bread wardrobe for something a lot more confident.

whitebread

mod. plain; dull. If I wanted a white bread vacation, I’d have gone to the beach.

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White-bread rolls, available today in the smallest hamlet, were at this time an almost exclusively urban phenomenon.

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When the punk rock movement began--an extreme reaction against overblown, overproduced, white-bread corporate rock--it seemed like half the people involved were gay.

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In Galloping Through the Wheat, 1992, wild horses with long, sharp blades for hooves trample a big loaf of what looks like foam Wonderbread, ruthlessly shredding it (and, by implication, white-bread America) into ever smaller chunks.