Citations:Ameritrash

Noun: "(sometimes derogatory) a genre of board games predominant in the United States..."

 * 2008, "German recreation: An affinity for rules?", The Economist, 28 August 2008:
 * Euro (also “German-style”) games must not be confused with “Ameritrash” games, which generally involve high drama and employ plastic pieces, though arguing over what the difference is seems to be gamers' second-favourite pastime.
 * 2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games, CRC Press (2013), ISBN 9781466554207, page 55:
 * It's worth noting that Ameritrash games seem to have the most in common with modern video games: heavily thematic experiences with a big focus on production values.
 * 2012, Scott Rogers, Swipe This!: The Guide to Great Touchscreen Game Design, John Wiley & Sons (2012), ISBN 9781119940548, page 231:
 * Ameritrash players like to play games with lots of dice, blind luck and space marines fighting zombies.
 * 2014, James Stubbs, "Traditional Board Games: From Ameritrash to Eurogames", in Teen Games Rule!: A Librarian's Guide to Platforms and Programs (eds. Julie Scordato & Ellen Forsyth), ABC-CLIO (2014), ISBN 9781598847048, page 72:
 * Risk and Monopoly are the poster children of Ameritrash.

Noun: "(derogatory) American people viewed as stupid or contemptible"

 * 1986, Ellis Weiner, "The Last Working Stiff", Spy, December 1986, page 50:
 * These individuals, either by birth or marriage, have acquired trust fund wings, which permit them to defy the law of economic gravity that rules everyone else. They are Ameritrash.
 * 2003, Steve Johnson, "An 'SNL' to make you wish you lived in Iowa, Chicago Tribune, 8 December 2003:
 * Ameritrash heiress and, now, reality-TV star Paris Hilton coming on to mock her Internet sex tape was funny, until Fallon's winking performance pushed the dialogue past sly innuendo and into sophomoric overkill.
 * 2004, David Brooks, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, Simon & Schuster (2004), ISBN 0743262859, page 19:
 * Late at night in these neighborhoods, you find the Ameritrash, the club-happy, E-popping, pacifier-sucking people who live in a world of gold teeth caps, colorful scarfwear,