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Spin a lot of rubbish (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

drive

'spin' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'a lot of rubbish' is the wordplay.
'a lot of' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'rubbish' becomes 'drivel' (I've seen this before).
'drivel' with its final letter taken off is 'DRIVE'.

(Other definitions for drive that I've seen before include "offensive" , "gear" , "run saloon?" , "Energy - herd - private road" , "Car journey; urge" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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