trash

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride

   I got high off some trash.

2. 2
   noun

   nonsensical talk or writing

   I could barely understand what the writer was saying, it was trash.

3. 3
   noun

   worthless people, often lower class

   I know I'm better than them, they are total trash.

4. 4
   noun

   worthless material that is to be disposed of, as in rubbish

   We took the trash out to the curb.

5. 5
   verb

   express a totally negative opinion of

   The criticism was really harsh, they were totally trashing them.

6. 6
   verb

   dispose of something useless or old

   I decided to trash the old chairs.

7. 7
   noun

   Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

   A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

8. 8
   noun

   Something worthless or of poor quality.

   When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.

Etymology

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”).