trash

Meaning

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

rubbish

garbage

of no value

Methedrine

deoxyephedrine

methamphetamine hydrochloride

ragtag and bobtail

waste matter

food waste

rout out

toss away

something cheap or inferior

shoddy merchandise

low-grade stuff

Java weed

floating rubbish

floating weeds

belabour

clapperclaw

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹæʃ/

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”).

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