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trashed

  [trasht]
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–adjective Slang.
intoxicated; drunk.
Origin:
1925–30, for an earlier sense; trash + -ed 2

trash

  [trash] ,
–noun
1. anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
2. foolish or pointless ideas, talk, or writing; nonsense.
3. a worthless or disreputable person.
4. such persons collectively.
5. literary or artistic material of poor or inferior quality.
6. broken or torn bits, as twigs, splinters, rags, or the like.
7. something that is broken or lopped off from anything in preparing it for use.
8. the refuse of sugar cane after the juice has been expressed.
9. Computers. an icon of a trash can that is used to delete files dragged onto it.
–verb (used with object)
10. Slang. to destroy, damage, or vandalize, as in anger or protest: The slovenly renters had trashed the house.
11. to condemn, dismiss, or criticize as worthless: The article trashed several recent best-sellers.
12. to remove the outer leaves of (a growing sugar cane plant).
13. to free from superfluous twigs or branches.
Origin:
1325–75; ME trasches (pl.), appar. c. Norw trask rubbish; akin to OE trus brushwood, ON tros rubbish

Synonyms:
5. drivel, rot, hogwash, nonsense.
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trash   (trāsh)   
n.  
    1. Worthless or discarded material or objects; refuse or rubbish.
    2. Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings.
    3. The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
    4. Empty words or ideas.
    5. Worthless or offensive literary or artistic material.
    6. Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.
  2. A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: threw the wrapper in the trash.
    1. Empty words or ideas.
    2. Worthless or offensive literary or artistic material.
    3. Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.
  4. A person or group of people regarded as worthless or contemptible.
tr.v.   trashed, trash·ing, trash·es
  1. Slang
    1. To throw away; discard: trashed the broken toaster.
    2. To wreck or destroy by or as if by vandalism; reduce to trash or ruins.
    3. To beat up; assault.
    4. To subject to scathing criticism or abuse; attack verbally: "The ... professor trashes conservative ... proposals as well as liberal nostrums" (Michael Marien).
    5. To remove twigs or branches from.
    6. To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).
    1. To remove twigs or branches from.
    2. To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).

[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialectal trask.]
trashed   (trāsht)   
adj.   Slang
Drunk or intoxicated.
Our Living Language  : Expressions for intoxication are among those that best showcase the creativity of slang. The boundless inventiveness in expressing the ordinary in not-so-ordinary ways led Walt Whitman to describe slang as "an attempt of common humanity to escape from bald literalism, and express itself illimitably." Colloquial and slang expressions meaning "intoxicated" can fill several pages in slang thesauruses. Most fall into a few general groups. Common are expressions that originally meant "damaged, badly affected by something," such as trashed, smashed, crocked, blitzed, hammered, wasted, messed up, and blasted. Cooking terms are also common, such as baked, fried, and boiled (said to have been coined at Princeton University in the 1920s). Terms relating to liquids or being filled are a natural source of metaphors for filling oneself up with drink or drugs: sloshed, oiled, tanked, and loaded are but a few. Some terms are not easily classified or have origins that are not fully clear, such as tight (first appearing in the 1830s), plastered (first appearing around 1912), blotto (perhaps from blot, first appearing in 1917), and stoned (apparently taken from such expressions as stone-drunk, stone-cold, and first appearing as stone in 1945). Most current terms for "intoxicated" are not very old, as one expects of slang terms generally; of those in the lists above, blotto, crocked, fried, loaded, plastered, tanked, tight, and oiled are recorded in the first half of the 20th century, and of these only tight and oiled are known to have existed before then.
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