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”), 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”).

• enPR: trăsh, IPA^(key): /tɹæʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)

2. (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.

4. (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) 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

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

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

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

   Synonyms: garbage, rubbish (chiefly British)

10. (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

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

    Synonym: scrap

14. (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
16. (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

    Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan

    I am Harry Potter trash.

18. (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).

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

   to exaggerate (a story)

   Synonyms: ekzagjeroj, teproj

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

   Synonyms: forcoj, thelloj

• “trash”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe ‎, 1980

Borrowed from English trash.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛʃ/^*
• 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 ”, in la Repubblica‎:

     Dai no-wax 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