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trash

1 of 2

noun

1
: something worth little or nothing: such as
a
: things that are no longer useful or wanted and that have been thrown away : junk, rubbish
b(1)
: inferior or worthless writing or artistic matter (such as a television show)
especially : such matter intended purely for sensational entertainment
(2)
(3)
: empty talk : nonsense
2
: a worthless person
also : such persons as a group : riffraff
3
: something in a crumbled or broken condition or mass
especially : debris from pruning or processing plant material

trash

2 of 2

verb

trashed; trashing; trashes

transitive verb

1
: throw away sense 1
standards of reality and truth were trashed Edwin Diamond
2
3
4
: spoil, ruin
trashing the environment
5
: to subject to criticism or invective
especially : to disparage strongly
a film trashed by the critics

intransitive verb

: to trash something or someone

Example Sentences

Noun Take out the trash, please. I put the dirty diaper in the trash. I can't believe you're reading that trash. She thinks that they're all trash. Verb a computer program that trashes useless files The vacuum cleaner couldn't be fixed, so I trashed it. The apartment had been trashed. He says that the government's policies are trashing the environment. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Jefferson will share the work her team is doing to measure the amount and types of trash in Cleveland’s urban streams, including Euclid Creek. cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022 And the city is increasing the frequency of sweeps on routes where relatively large amounts of trash are collected. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 Moad said that the amount of trash collected along the river during last year’s event was sizable due to low water levels. David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 The Watershed Protection Department has removed 168,000 pounds of trash from dozens of encampments over the past year. Paul Best, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2022 There are two bedrooms, one bathroom and lots of trash, according to the listing on the San Antonio Board of Realtor's website. Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Aug. 2022 Sure, your dash gets dusty and your floorboard accumulates (a disturbing amount of) trash. Jon Langston And Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2022 In the photo: Plante Moran's Traverse City team adopted a highway in April, cleaning up more than 55 bags of trash. Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022 Yager and volunteers have cleaned up over a million pounds of trash to date. Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022
Verb
City officials say the changes will make San Diego’s street sweeping more effective and efficient, which will keep more trash out of local rivers and bays, which eventually flow into the ocean. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 The network could have a MAGA Republican on every show and the MAGA crowd would still trash it. Fox News, 23 Aug. 2022 Panthers defensive players were very loud and clearly trash talking the Patriots offense. Mark Daniels, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022 Without enough housekeepers, the management team stripped bed linens and took out towels and trash to prepare the rooms for the next guests. Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022 The Russians who occupied the building threw trash out the windows, which landed on top of the corpses. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 Refuting the claims, Ola’s chief executive took to Twitter to dismiss any such development and trash the insinuation. Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 29 July 2022 The handbook urges Ukrainians to block roads with anything available, from dump trucks to trash, and never to sit around. Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022 While some women in their middle years become fixated on perfecting their appearance, others may trash their beauty products altogether or stop picking up their broom on a regular basis. Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 14 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English trasch fallen leaves and twigs, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect trask rubbish; Old Norse tros fallen leaves and twigs, Old English trus

First Known Use

Noun

circa 1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1902, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of trash was circa 1529

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