trash
/tɹæʃ/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A container into which things are discarded.
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Media, such as movies and novels, that are entertaining but unsophisticated, crass or aimed at the lowest common denominator.
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
Uncountable
noun
People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Derogatory; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin."
- "When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose."
- "My guilty pleasure is 80s horror trash."
- "When you see a picture of Dario Argento with a copy of ETC you just know that this is the source for info on fine Italian trash."
- "[…][soap opera] serials have often been regarded as trash and largely been ignored in the 'serious' literature and research. Particularly it has been dismissed as waste-of-time women's trash or, sometimes, as adolescent trash."
- "Fans of trash horror other and devalue slasher-cycle horror as overly commercial or nonunderground."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: trasch, *þrakjaz, *dóru