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Noun: trash  trash
  1. 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
     
  2. A product or production of poor quality
    "That movie was pure trash";
    - clinker [N. Amer, informal], junk [informal]
     
  3. [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
     
  4. [N. Amer, informal] Worthless people
    "The politician referred to his opponents as trash, causing outrage";
    - scum [informal]
     
  5. [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]
Verb: trash  trash
Usage: informal
  1. Dispose of (something useless or old)
    "trash these old chairs";
    - junk [informal], scrap
     
  2. 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