trash
Plural: trashes
Noun
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- worthless people
- nonsensical talk or writing
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
Verb
Verb Forms: trashed, trashing, trashes
- To free from worthless or discarded material; to discard.
- dispose of (something useless or old)
- "trash these old chairs"
- express a totally negative opinion of
- To discard.
- To make into a mess.
- To beat soundly in a game.
- To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- 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.
Examples
- Drag the unwanted message to the trash.
- I am Harry Potter trash.
- Sometimes, you just need to TRASH your current rack and draw new tiles in Scrabble.
- The burglars trashed the house.
- to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
- When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
Synonyms
applesauce, chalk, chicken feed, codswallop, crank, deoxyephedrine, folderol, glass, ice, junk, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, pan, rubbish, scrap, scum, shabu, tear apart, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash, bin, crap, cultch, debris, detrash, dreck, drek, garbage, garbage (1-3), garbage can, junk (1,3), litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, pile of crap, pile of shit, recycle bin, refuse, roughage, rubbish bin, service item, shit, stuff, trash, trash bin, trash can, trashbin, trashcan, waste
Scrabble Score: 8
trash: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtrash: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
trash: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary