Definition of "trash"

trash

/tɹæʃ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural trashes
1. (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
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  A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
  1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Robert Southey and Porson”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […]
2. (chiefly Canada, US, metonymically) A container into which things are discarded.
3. (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
4. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
5. (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) 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.
6. (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
7. (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
8. (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
9. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
verb
third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed
1. (US) To discard.
  Quotations
  Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
  1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66
2. (US) To make into a mess.
3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
4. (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
  Quotations
  It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
  20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
  Quotations
  the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves
  1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
6. 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.
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  I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me
  c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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