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Trash
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- 1 Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. Canada, US, countable, uncountable
"A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin."
- 2 an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant wordnet
- 3 A container into which things are discarded. Canada, US, countable, metonymically, uncountable
- 4 nonsensical talk or writing wordnet
- 5 Something worthless or of poor quality. Canada, US, countable, figuratively, uncountable
"When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose."
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- 6 worthless people wordnet
- 7 A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful. countable, uncountable
"(chiefly British)"
- 8 worthless material that is to be disposed of wordnet
- 9 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. Southern, US, countable, uncountable
- 10 Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades. uncountable
- 11 People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.) Canada, US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
- 12 A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks. Canada, US, humorous, slang, uncountable
"Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan"
- 13 Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary. countable, uncountable
"Drag the unwanted message to the trash."
- 1 To discard. US
"Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk."
- 2 express a totally negative opinion of wordnet
- 3 To make into a mess. US
"The burglars trashed the house."
- 4 dispose of (something useless or old) wordnet
- 5 To beat soundly in a game. US
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- 6 To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect. transitive
"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."
- 7 To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
"to trash the rattoons of sugar cane"
- 8 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"
Etymology
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”).
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”).
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