trash

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English trasches (plural), apparently cognate with Norwegian trask rubbish; akin to Old English trus brushwood, Old Norse tros rubbish

Synonyms
5. drivel, rot, hogwash, nonsense.

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trash¹ (træʃ)

—n
1.	foolish ideas or talk; nonsense
2.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) useless or unwanted matter or objects
3.	a literary or artistic production of poor quality
4.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) a poor or worthless person or a group of such people
5.	bits that are broken or lopped off, esp the trimmings from trees or plants
6.	the dry remains of sugar cane after the juice has been extracted

—vb
7.	to remove the outer leaves and branches from (growing plants, esp sugar cane)
8.	slang to attack or destroy (someone or something) wilfully or maliciously

[C16: of obscure origin; perhaps related to Norwegian trask]

'trashery¹

—n

trash² (træʃ)

—vb
1.	(tr) to restrain with or as if with a lead

—n
2.	a lead for a dog

[C17: perhaps from obsolete French tracier to track, trace¹]

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Word Origin & History

trash

"anything of little use or value," 1518, perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. tros "rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs," Norw. dial. trask "lumber, trash, baggage," Swed. trasa "rags, tatters"), 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. Trashy "worthless" first attested 1620.

Slang Dictionary

trash definition

tv.
to throw something away. : Trash this stuff. Nobody will ever use it.
n.
a low, worthless person; worthless people. : Running around with that trash—no wonder he's in trouble.
tv.
to vandalize something. : Somebody trashed the statue with spray paint.
tv.
to beat, as in a ball game. : You trashed us this game, but watch out next season!
tv.
to libel someone. : Who is the chick who was trashing Bart in the newspapers?

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Computing Dictionary

trash definition

To destroy, e.g. the contents of a data structure. The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble.
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