trash

Meaning

Noun

1. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
2. (Canada, US, countable, metonymically, uncountable) A container into which things are discarded.
3. (Canada, US, countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality.
4. (countable, uncountable) A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
5. (Southern, US, countable, uncountable) 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.
6. (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
7. (Canada, US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
8. (Canada, US, humorous, slang, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
9. (countable, uncountable) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

Verb

1. (US) To discard.
2. (US) To make into a mess.
3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
4. (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
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.

Synonyms

rubbish

garbage

🗑️

refuse

waste

junk

litter

scrap

scum

garbage

🗑️

destroy

nonsense

offal

dust

debris

pan

ruin

sweepings

dirt

codswallop

throw away

meth

wish-wash

Methedrine

crank

bosh

worthless

crap

methamphetamine

tripe

throw out

trumpery

wreck

deoxyephedrine

stuff

dross

schlock

chicken feed

chalk

recycle bin

tear apart

glass

discard

ice

🧊

devastate

bagasse

spoil

folderol

get rid of

applesauce

of no value

Translations

basura

Müll

Abfall

spazzatura

ordures

lixo

🗑️

immondizia

pattume

🗑️

Schund

afval

déchets

camelote

rifiuto

Papierkorb

poubelle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹæʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: trasch

Cognate with Norwegian: trask

Cognate with Swedish: trasa

Cognate with Swedish: trås

Cognate with Old English: þreax

In summary

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”).

Sentences

" What a load of trash ", Sarah opined .