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noun

Trash n.

1.

That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. "Who steals my purse steals trash." "A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin."

2.

Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like. Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash.

3.

A worthless person. (R.)

4.

A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water.

verb

Trash v. t. (past & past part. trashed; pres. part. trashing)

1.

To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.

2.

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. (Obs.)

3.

To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. (R.)

Trash v. i. To follow with violence and trampling. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Trash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trash" Quotes from Famous Books

... subject of the institute, And universal body of the law:[16] This[17] study fits a mercenary drudge, Who aims at nothing but external trash; Too servile[18] and illiberal for me. When all is done, divinity is best: Jerome's Bible, ...

— The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe

... praised were abject rubbish, but it took time to find this out, and he formed the habit of reading far into the night, and if he was very much vexed at discovering that the book recommended to him was trash, he could not sleep unless he took veronal, and then he ...

— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells

... good. I was disgusted. And Simpson said if that is the way they were goin' to treat convicts, why, civilization is a failure. All through Lent, too, wouldn't allow us an oyster; kept stuffin' us with beef and such trash, although Botts said he'd never been used to such wickedness, for his parents were very particular. Wouldn't even give us fish-balls twice a week. But what does Murphy care? He's perfectly enthusiastic when he can tread on a man's feelin's and stamp all the moral ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... How many are there of his Lordship's writings which could otherwise never have been of any real service to the public? Has he indeed so mean an opinion of our taste, to send us at this time of day into all the corners of Holborn, Duck Lane, and Moorfields, in quest after the factious trash published in those days by Julian Johnson, ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. III.: Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church, Vol. I. • Jonathan Swift

... poetry for its own sake, provided I leave undone nothing which I ought to do, in order to pursue that single, absorbing, exquisite gratification. I am afraid, sir, you think me very foolish. I know the first letter I wrote to you was all senseless trash from beginning to end; but I am not altogether the idle dreaming being it would seem to denote. My father is a clergyman of limited, though competent income, and I am the eldest of his children. He expended quite as much in my education as he ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell

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