trash

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”). 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”).

• enPR: trăsh, IPA^(key): /tɹæʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
   • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Robert Southey and Porson”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

2. (chiefly Canada, US, metonymically) A container into which things are discarded.

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

   Coordinate terms: recycle bin, recycling bin, recycling

3. (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.

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

4. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

   Synonyms: garbage, rubbish (chiefly British)

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.

   Coordinate terms: straw, stover, shaw

6. (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.

   Synonym: scrap

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.

   I am Harry Potter trash.

   Hyponym: stan

9. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

   Synonym: (in Microsoft Windows) recycle bin

   Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

• (garbage, rubbish): The noun is uncountable in Inner Circle Englishes. The plural trashes is found for example in Indian English.

• garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste
• (container): trash can
• (storage for deleted files): recycle bin (in Microsoft Windows)
• See also Thesaurus:trash

trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)

1. (US) To discard.
   • 1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66:

     Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

2. (US) To make into a mess.

   The burglars trashed the house.

3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
4. (transitive) 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 memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.

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

   Synonym: detrash

   to trash the rattoons of sugar cane

   • 1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies:

     the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves

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.
   • 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):

     I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me

• See also Thesaurus:junk

• trash out

recycle bin

• Arths, HARTs, Harts, Raths, Stahr, harts, raths, shart, tahrs, thars

See Albanian trashë (“thick, fat, massive”) (from Proto-Albanian *trauša, according to Vladimir Orel).[1]

• (active) trash (aorist trasha, participle trashur)

1. (transitive) to thicken, to fatten, to plump up (something)

   Synonym: majm

2. (figurative) to magnify, inflate (an object)

   Synonyms: zmadhoj, lartësoj, fryj

   I exaggerate (a story)

   Synonyms: ekzagjeroj, teproj

   I strengthen, deepen (a friendship, relationship, conversation)

   Synonyms: forcoj, thelloj

• (passive) tráshem (aorist u trasha, participle trashur)

1. (passive voice, reflexive) to gain weight, to become thick, fat
2. (passive voice, third person) to be getting lower, deeper (voice, sound, volume)
3. (passive voice, third person) to be getting worse (problem(s), disagreement(s), quarrel(s))
4. (passive voice, third person) to become more frequent, denser, thicker; to thicken (a larger scale of particles)

   Synonym: dendësoj

   U trash bora.

   The snow thickens.

5. (passive voice, figurative, third person) to be getting tired; to lose (strength, ability or sharpness)
6. (passive voice, figurative, third person) to be stubborn, headstrong, pigheaded, foolish, stupid, bigheaded, arrogant (when associated with a person's intelligence or behaviour)

1=trash

(conjugation type 14²)

• active verb trash (aorist trasha; participle trashur) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
• passive verb trashem (tráshem) (aorist u trasha; participle trashur) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 576 (verb trash (14²))

Borrowed from English trash.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛʃ/^*[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

trash (invariable)

1. of an unrefined or vulgar taste; trash

trash m (invariable)

1. art movement that emphasizes what is ugly, grotesque, or vulgar; trash
   • 2020 September 25, Massimo Basile, “No Vax, cospirazionisti e antisemiti: "l'altra America" si ritrova alla festa trash nel resort di Trump [No Vax, conspiracy theorists and antisemites: "the other America" finds itself in the trash party in the Trump Resort]”, in la Repubblica‎:

     Dai no-wax^[sic] ai cospirazionisti, dai no-mask agli antisemiti, tra feste in piscina, sugli yacht, musica e partite di poker, si ritroveranno tutti tra due settimane in un resort trumpiano di Miami per la tre giorni di quella che, i media americani, definiscono una "vera celebrazione del trash" in un momento in cui l'America è devastata dalla pandemia.

     From the no-vaxxers to the conspiracy theorists, from the no-maskers to the antisemites, between parties in the pool, on yachts, music and poker games, everyone will find themselves in a Trumpian resort in Miami in two weeks for three days of what the American media calls a "real celebration of trash" in a moment in which America is devastated by the pandemic.

trash

1. Alternative form of trasch