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trash

  [trash] ,
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–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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
trash

  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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Word Origin & History

trash  (n.)
"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. White trash is from 1831, originally Southern U.S. black slang. Trashy "worthless" first attested 1620.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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