(~s)
1.
If you describe something such as a book, film, or song as a ~, you mean that it contains ideas or elements that have been used before, and that it is not very interesting or original.
His last book, ‘Needful Things’, was a ~ of tired material.
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n disapproval
2.
A ~ is an old tyre which has been given a new surface or tread and can be used again.
= remould
N-COUNT