trash
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
trash
- (chiefly, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
- (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- (fandom, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- I am Harry Potter trash.
- (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
- garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste
- (container) trash can
- (storage for deleted files) recycle bin
- See also Thesaurus:trash
- French: déchet
- German: Müll, Abfall
- Italian: spazzatura, immondizia, rifiuti
- Portuguese: lixo
- Russian: му́сор
- Spanish: basura
- French: corbeille à papier
- German: Papierkorb
- Italian: cassonetto
- Portuguese: lixo, lixeira
- Spanish: caneca (Colombia), papelera
trash (trashes, present participle trashing; past and past participle trashed)
- (US) To discard.
- 1989, InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)
- Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
- 1989, InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)
- (US) To make into a mess.
- The burglars trashed the house.
- (US) To beat soundly in a game.
- (US) To disrespect someone or something
- 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.
- 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? ↗
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
- To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
- 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.
- See also Thesaurus:junk
- German: verhauen
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