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trash
- /tɹæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
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”).
noun trashes
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Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
Similar: refuse
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A container into which things are discarded.
Similar: trashcan, trash can, trashbin, trash bin, garbage can, rubbish bin, bin
- Something worthless or of poor quality. When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
- Media, such as movies and novels, that are entertaining but unsophisticated, crass or aimed at the lowest common denominator. My guilty pleasure is 80s horror trash.
- 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.
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Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
Similar: scrap
- People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
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A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
Similar: stan, admirer, aficionado, buff, connoisseur, enthusiast, devotee, maniac, fan, fanatic, fancier, fancy
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Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
Drag the unwanted message to the trash.
Similar: recycle bin
Similar: garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), rubbish, waste, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, roughage, service item, shit, stuff, trash
verb trashes · trashing · trashed
- To discard. Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
- To make into a mess. The burglars trashed the house.
- To beat soundly in a game.
- To 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 the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his
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To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
Similar: detrash
- 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
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: junk, rubbish, scum, trumpery, folderol, scrap, tear apart, wish-wash, tripe, pan, applesauce, waste, tacky, dirtbag, rag, vulgar
noun
Similar: garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), rubbish, waste, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, roughage, service item, shit, stuff, trash
Translations
Every language
noun computer terminology
| Español | papelera |
|---|---|
| Português | lixeira, reciclagem |
| Français | corbeille |
| Deutsch | Papierkorb |
| Italiano | cestino |
| Русский | корзи́на korzína, му́сорная корзи́на músornaja korzína |
noun things to be discarded
| Español | basura, tlazol, tlazole, clazol |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 쓰레기 sseuregi, 오물 omul |
| 日本語 | ごみ gomi |
| 中文 | 垃圾 lājī, lèsè, 廢物 /废物 fèiwù |
| हिन्दी | कूड़ा kūṛā |
| Português | lixo |
| Français | déchet |
| Deutsch | Abfall, Mist, Müll, Unrat |
| Italiano | spazzatura, immondizia, rifiuti |
| Ελληνικά | απορρίματα aporrímata, σκουπίδια skoupídia |
| Română | lucru nevaloros, rebut, gunoi, rămășițe, reziduu, deșeu |
| Русский | му́сор músor |
| Tiếng Việt | rác |
| العربية | زُبَالَة zubāla, نُفَايَات nufāyāt, قُمَامَة qumāma, مُخَلَّفَات muḵallafāt |
| עברית | זבל zével |
noun container
| Español | caneca, papelera |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | कूड़ेदान kūṛedān, कचरा पात्र kacrā pātra |
| Português | lixo, lixeira |
| Français | corbeille à papier |
| Deutsch | Mistkübel, Mülleimer, Papierkorb |
| Italiano | cassonetto |
| Română | coș de hârtii |
| العربية | سَلُّة الْمُهْمَلَات |
| עברית | פח אשפה pakh-'ashpá |
noun something of poor quality
| Español | basura |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 개털 gaeteol |
| Português | lixo, porcaria |
| Italiano | mondezza, porcheria, robaccia |
| Русский | дрянь drjanʹ, ерунда́ jerundá, халту́ра xaltúra |
noun people of low social status or class
| Español | basura, escoria |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 개털 gaeteol |
| Português | lixo, escória, gentalha |
| Deutsch | Bodensatz (der Gesellschaft), Unterschicht |
| Italiano | feccia |
| Русский | отро́дье otródʹje, отре́бье otrébʹje, шваль švalʹ |
verb to discard
| Português | jogar fora |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | wegwerfen |
| Italiano | scartare |
verb to beat soundly
| Deutsch | verhauen |
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