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trashed

   [trasht]
adjective Slang.
intoxicated; drunk.
Origin:
1925–30, for an earlier sense; trash + -ed2

Related forms
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speech or writing that is false or worthless; rubbish
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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.
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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.
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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; 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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trashed (træʃt)
 
—adj
informal drunk

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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
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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.
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trash definition


  1. tv.
    to throw something away. : Trash this stuff. Nobody will ever use it.
  2. n.
    a low, worthless person; worthless people. : Running around with that trash—no wonder he's in trouble.
  3. tv.
    to vandalize something. : Somebody trashed the statue with spray paint.
  4. tv.
    to beat, as in a ball game. : You trashed us this game, but watch out next season!
  5. tv.
    to libel someone. : Who is the chick who was trashing Bart in the newspapers?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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trashed definition


  1. mod.
    alcohol or drug intoxicated. (Collegiate.) : Let's all get trashed and raid the girls' dorm.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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