/tɹæʃ/
OriginFrom 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”).
- Canada, US, countable, uncountableUseless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
“A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.”
- Canada, US, countable, metonymically, uncountableA container into which things are discarded.
- Canada, US, countable, figuratively, uncountableSomething worthless or of poor quality.
“When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.”
- countable, uncountableA dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- Southern, US, countable, uncountableThe 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.
- uncountableLoose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- Canada, US, humorous, slang, uncountableA fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
“Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan”
“I am Harry Potter trash.”
- countable, uncountableTemporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
“Drag the unwanted message to the trash.”
- USTo discard.
“Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.”
- USTo make into a mess.
“The burglars trashed the house.”
- USTo beat soundly in a game.
- transitiveTo treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
“20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing ”
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
“to trash the rattoons of sugar cane”
“the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves”
- 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.
“I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me”
Formstrashes(plural) · trashes(present, singular, third-person) · trashing(participle, present) · trashed(participle, past) · trashed(past)