trash

nounverbcommon in dialogue

//tɹæʃ//

Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

noun

1
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
2
A container into which things are discarded.
3
figurativeSomething worthless or of poor quality.
When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
4
A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
5
The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
6
Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
7
slangPeople of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
8
slangA fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
I am Harry Potter trash.
9
Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

Etymology

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

verb

1
To discard.
Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
2
To make into a mess.
The burglars trashed the house.
3
To beat soundly in a game.
4
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
5
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves
6
To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me

Forms

plural: trashes
past tense: trashed
past participle: trashed
present participle: trashing
third person singular: trashes

trap · A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes…trapped · Caught in a trap.traps · A trap set (drum kit).

trash · Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

trashed · drunk.trauma · Any injury to the body of a living thing.traumatic · Of, caused by, or causing trauma.

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