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trashing

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of trash

noun trashings

  1. countable, uncountable The act by which something is trashed. One of the most recent trashings of my work was by Sara Suleri in an issue of Critical Inquiry.
  2. US, countable, uncountable Dumpster diving.
  3. countable, uncountable A tradition of throwing food, confetti, etc. over students after their final examinations.

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@misc{trashing_2026,
  title = {trashing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trashing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}