trash

/træʃ/

/træʃ/

Other forms: trashed; trashing; trashes

Trash is rubbish or garbage — it's the stuff that gets thrown away. Your town might organize a clean-up day each year when people pick up trash in parks and neighborhoods.

Trash is dirty, worthless, leftover debris. Fittingly, the word is also a terribly derogatory term for useless, low-status people: "I should've known you were nothing but trash." And to trash talk is to brutally criticize or gossip about someone. You can even use trash as a verb, to mean "throw away," as in, "I'm going to trash this trash in that trash can over there."

Definitions of trash

1. noun

   worthless material that is to be disposed of
   synonyms: garbage, refuse, rubbish, scrap

   types:

   scrap metal

   discarded metal suitable for reprocessing

   debris, detritus, dust, junk, rubble

   the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

   litter

   rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

   slack

   dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve

   scrap iron

   iron to be melted again and reworked

   type of:

   waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product

   any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
2. noun

   worthless people
   synonyms: scum

   type of:

   rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff

   disparaging terms for the common people
3. noun

   nonsensical talk or writing
   synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash

   type of:

   drivel, garbage

   a worthless message
4. verb

   dispose of (something useless or old)
   “trash these old chairs”

   synonyms: junk, scrap

   type of:

   cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out

   throw or cast away
5. verb

   express a totally negative opinion of
   synonyms: pan, tear apart

   type of:

   belittle, disparage, pick at

   express a negative opinion of
6. noun

   an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
   type of:

   controlled substance

   a drug or chemical substance whose possession and use are controlled by law