trash
n. uncountablen. things that you throw away because you do not want or need them anymore. You might also use this word to describe something of very low quality, like a bad movie.
n. discarded matter or refuse; rubbish. Often used figuratively to describe cultural products or ideas perceived as worthless or of poor quality.
Please take the trash out to the bin.
The janitor collected the trash from every office before locking the building for the night.
While critics dismissed the novel as commercial trash, it resonated deeply with a generation of readers who found its themes of isolation remarkably authentic.
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”).
Primarily North American in usage; equivalent to 'rubbish' in British English.
I have many trashes to throw awayI have a lot of trash to throw awayTrash is uncountable and does not have a plural form when referring to waste.
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oil trash
An uncultured, rowdy roughneck employed in the petroleum industry, especially a "white trash" person if used negatively.
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take out the trash
To forcefully remove undesirable people from a place.
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talk trash
To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.