Trash TRASH, n. 1. Any waste or worthless matter. Who steals my
money, steals trash. 2. Loppings of trees; bruised canes, etc. In the
West Indies,the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field-trash;
the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane-trash; and both are
called trash. 3. Fruit or other matter improper for food, but eaten
by children, etc. It is used particularly of unripe fruits. 4. A
worthless person. [Not proper.] 5. A piece of leather or other thing
fastened to a dog's neck to retard his speed. TRASH, v.t. To
lop; to crop. 1. To strip of leaves; as, to trash ratoons. 2. To
crush; to humble; as, to trash the Jews. 3. To clog; to encumber;
to hinder. TRASH, v.i. To follow with violence and trampling.
trash
"anything of little use or value," 1518, perhaps from O.N. tros "rubbish,
fallen leaves and twigs," of unknown origin. Applied to ill-bred persons
or groups from 1604 ("Othello"). Applied to domestic refuse or garbage
in 1906 (Amer.Eng.). The verb meaning "to discard as worthless" is 1895,
from the noun; in the sense of "destroy, vandalize" it is attested from
1970; extended to "criticize severely" in 1975. White trash is from 1831,
originally Southern U.S. black slang. Trashy first attested 1620.
trash I. nounEtymology: Middle English trasch fallen leaves and twigs,
perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect trask
rubbish; Old Norse tros fallen leaves and twigs, Old English
trusDate: circa 1518 1. something worth little or
nothing: as
a.junk, rubbishb.(1) empty talk ;nonsense(2) inferior or worthless
writing or artistic matter (as a television show); especially
such matter intended purely for sensational entertainment (3)trash talk2. something in a crumbled or broken condition or mass;
especially debris from pruning or processing plant material 3.
a worthless person; also such persons as a group ;riffraffII. verbDate: 1902 transitive verb1.throw away 1 <standards of reality and truth were
trashed — Edwin Diamond> 2.vandalize,
destroy3.attack, assault4.spoil, ruin
<trashing the environment> 5. to subject to
criticism or invective; especially to disparage strongly <a
film trashed by the critics>
intransitive verb to trash something or someone
trash n. & v. --n. 1 esp. US worthless or waste stuff; rubbish, refuse. 2 a worthless person or persons. 3 a thing of poor workmanship or material. 4 (in full cane-trash) W.Ind. the
refuse of crushed sugar canes and dried stripped leaves and tops of sugar cane used as fuel. --v.tr. 1 esp. US colloq. wreck. 2 strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to speed up the
ripening process. 3 esp. US colloq. expose the worthless nature of; disparage. Phrases and idioms: trash can US a dustbin. trash-ice (on a sea, lake, etc.) broken ice mixed with
water. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.
trash
(trashes, trashing, trashed)
1. Trash consists of unwanted things or waste material such as used paper, empty
containers and bottles, and waste food. (AM; in BRIT, use rubbish)
N-UNCOUNT: also the N
2. If you say that something such as a book, painting, or film is trash, you mean that
it is of very poor quality. (INFORMAL)
Pop music doesn't have to be trash, it can be art...= rubbish
N-UNCOUNT
3. If someone trashes a place or vehicle, they deliberately destroy it or make it very
dirty. (INFORMAL)
Would they trash the place when the party was over?...= wreck
VERB: V n
4. If you trash people or their ideas, you criticize them very strongly and say that
they are worthless. (mainly AM INFORMAL)
People asked why the candidates spent so much time trashing each other.= rubbish
VERB: V n
5.
see alsowhite trash
trash
træʃ n. & v. --n. 1 esp. US worthless or waste stuff; rubbish,
refuse. 2 a worthless person or persons. 3 a thing of poor workmanship or
material. 4 (in full cane-trash) W.Ind. the refuse of crushed sugar canes
and dried stripped leaves and tops of sugar cane used as fuel. --v.tr. 1
esp. US colloq. wreck. 2 strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to speed
up the ripening process. 3 esp. US colloq. expose the worthless nature of;
disparage. øtrash can US a dustbin. trash-ice (on a sea, lake, etc.) broken
ice mixed with water. [16th c.: orig. unkn.]
Trash \Trash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trashed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trashing.]
1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to
crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. --B.
Edwards.
2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn,
humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]
3. 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. [R.] --Beau. & Fl.
Trash \Trash\, n. [Cf. Icel. tros rubbish, leaves, and twigs
picked up for fuel, trassi a slovenly fellow, Sw. trasa a
rag, tatter.]
1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
Who steals my purse steals trash. --Shak.
A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
--Landor.
2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar
cane, or the like.
Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of
canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated
rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called
trash. --B. Edwards.
3. A worthless person. [R.] --Shak.
4. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in
pursuing game. --Markham.
Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water.
trash vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure). The
most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle,
scribble, and roach.
trash
træʃ n.
1 rubbish, (stuff and) nonsense, balderdash, moonshine, gibberish, gobbledegook or
gobbledygook, tommy-rot, bunkum, garbage, twaddle, Colloq rot, flapdoodle, crap, codswallop, bosh,
piffle, hooey, bunk, malarkey, poppycock, boloney or baloney, eyewash, hogwash, bilge-water,
bull, Scots havers, Brit tosh, gammon, US a crock, hokum, gurry, horse feathers, Slang Brit
(a load of (old)) cobblers, Taboo slang bullshit, horseshit, Brit balls, US a crock of shit:
Don't believe him - he is talking trash.
2 (Chiefly US and Canadian) junk, brummagem, knick-knacks, gewgaws, trifles, bric-å-brac,
frippery or fripperies, bits and pieces, odds and ends, trinkets, tinsel, 'Not Wanted on Voyage':
There was mostly trash in the flea market, but there were one or two more valuable items.
3 (In US and Canada) rubbish, litter, garbage, waste, refuse, junk, debris, rubble,
dregs, dross, scoria, slag, offscourings, dirt, sweepings, Slang crap: The service comes to
remove the trash once a week. --v.
4 Slang chiefly US destroy, ruin, wreck, vandalize, deface: The lodgers trashed the flat
before doing a moonlight flit.
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