trash

plural trashes

1. CanadaUScountableuncountableUseless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

   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, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: refuse

2. CanadaUScountablemetonymicallyuncountableA container into which things are discarded.

   Synonyms: trashcan, trash can, trashbin, trash bin, garbage can, rubbish bin, bin, trash can

3. CanadaUScountablefigurativelyuncountableSomething worthless or of poor quality.

   When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.

4. CanadaUScountablefigurativelyuncountableMedia, 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.

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   When you see a picture of Dario Argento with a copy of ETC you just know that this is the source for info on fine Italian trash.

   1994, Factsheet Five

   […][soap opera] serials have often been regarded as trash and largely been ignored in the 'serious' literature and research. Particularly it has been dismissed as waste-of-time women's trash or, sometimes, as adolescent trash.

   2004, Cecilia von Feilitzen, Young People, Soap Operas and Reality TV, →ISBN

   Fans of trash horror other and devalue slasher-cycle horror as overly commercial or nonunderground.

   2007 October 24, Jeffrey Sconce, Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 224

   These are the wonders and dilemmas of genuine exploitation cinema: Wishman is wish fulfillment for every fan of trash extravaganzas.

   2007, Steven Jay Schneider, 501 Movie Directors, B.E.S. Publishing

5. countableuncountableA dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

   Synonyms: garbage, rubbish

6. SouthernUScountableuncountableagricultureThe 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.
7. uncountableagricultureLoose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.

   Synonyms: scrap

8. CanadaUScountablederogatoryslanguncountablePeople of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
9. CanadaUShumorousslanguncountablelifestyleA fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

   I am Harry Potter trash.

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   Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan

   Synonyms: stan, admirer, aficionado, buff, connoisseur, enthusiast, devotee, maniac

10. countableuncountablecomputingTemporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

    Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

    Synonyms: recycle bin, recycle bin

present singular third person trashes · participle present trashing · participle past trashed · past trashed

1. USTo discard.

   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. USTo make into a mess.

   The burglars trashed the house.

3. USTo beat soundly in a game.
4. transitiveTo treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.

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   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 memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.

5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

   to trash the rattoons of sugar cane

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   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

   Synonyms: detrash

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.

   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, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)