trash

trash
[[t]træ̱ʃ[/t]]
trashes, trashing, trashed
1) N-UNCOUNT: also the N Trash consists of unwanted things or waste material such as used paper, empty containers and bottles, and waste food. [AM]

The yards are overgrown and cluttered with trash...

Mowing lawns and taking out the trash are jobs for the tenant.

(in BRIT, use rubbish)
2) N-UNCOUNT If you say that something such as a book, painting, or film is trash you mean that it is of very poor quality. [INFORMAL]

Pop music doesn't have to be trash, it can be art...

Don't read that awful trash.

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3) VERB If someone trashes a place or vehicle, they deliberately destroy it or make it very dirty. [INFORMAL]

[V n] Would they trash the place when the party was over?...

[V n] The building had been trashed and its electricity supply cut.

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4) VERB If you trash people or their ideas, you criticize them very strongly and say that they are worthless. [mainly AM, INFORMAL]

[V n] People asked why the candidates spent so much time trashing each other.

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5) See also white trash

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