Trash

//tɹæʃ//

Definitions

1
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
Similar
refuse
2
A container into which things are discarded.
Similar
trashcan trash can trashbin
3
Something worthless or of poor quality.
When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.

1
To discard.
Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

Word Origin

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 Pr...

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