Noun: trash trash
Usage: informal
- Worthless material that is to be disposed of
"The city implemented a new system for collecting and processing trash";
- rubbish, scrap, junk [informal], garbage, refuse
- A product or production of poor quality
"That movie was pure trash";
- clinker [N. Amer, informal], junk [informal]
- [informal] Statements or beliefs that are untrue or make no sense
"He dismissed the conspiracy theory as pure trash";
- bunk [informal], bunkum [informal], buncombe [informal], guff [informal], rot [informal], hogwash [informal], flapdoodle [N. Amer, informal], Irish bull [slang], rhubarb [Brit, informal], bilge [informal], junk [informal], bull [slang], nonsense, jive [N. Amer, informal], bushwah [N. Amer, informal], bushwa [N. Amer, informal], folderol, rubbish [informal], tripe [informal], trumpery [archaic], wish-wash [informal], applesauce [N. Amer, informal], codswallop [Brit, informal], falderal, drivel, garbage
- [N. Amer, informal] Worthless people
"The politician referred to his opponents as trash, causing outrage";
- scum [informal]
- [informal] An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
"The police seized a large quantity of trash during the raid";
- methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth [informal], deoxyephedrine, chalk [informal], crank [informal], glass [informal], ice [informal], shabu [Asia, informal], tik [S.Africa], crystal meth, crystal [informal]
Usage: informal
- Dispose of (something useless or old)
"trash these old chairs";
- junk [informal], scrap
- Express a totally negative opinion of
"The critics trashed the performance";
- pan [informal], tear apart [informal]
Derived forms: trashing, trashes, trashed
Type of: amphetamine, belittle, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, content, controlled substance, discard, disparage, dispose, fling, message, pep pill [informal], pick at, put away, rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, speed [informal], subject matter, substance, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, upper [informal], waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
Encyclopedia: Trash, Trampoline, and the Party Girl