Word.ws English Dictionary

trash

/tɹæʃ/

trash noun: useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

Noun

trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)

  1. (Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
    • A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Robert Southey and Porson”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    refuse
  2. (Canada, US, metonymically) A container into which things are discarded.
  3. (Canada, US, figuratively) Something worthless or of poor quality.
    • When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
  4. (Canada, US, figuratively) Media, such as movies and novels, that are entertaining but unsophisticated, crass or aimed at the lowest common denominator.
    • 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.1994, Factsheet Five
  5. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
    Synonyms:
    garbage, rubbish
  6. (Southern, US) 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.
  7. (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
    Synonyms:
    scrap
  8. (Canada, US, derogatory, slang) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
  9. (Canada, US, humorous, slang, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
    • Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
    • I am Harry Potter trash.
  10. Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
    • Drag the unwanted message to the trash.
    Synonyms:
    recycle bin

Verb

trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)

  1. (US) To discard.
    • Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66
  2. (US) To make into a mess.
    • The burglars trashed the house.
  3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
  4. (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
    • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
      It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and...
  5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
    • to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
    • the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
    Synonyms:
    detrash
  6. 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.
    • I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' mec. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please...

trash meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

trash in Hindi

things to be discarded
कूड़ा kūṛā
container
कूड़ेदान kūṛedān, कचरा पात्र kacrā pātra

trash in Tamil

things to be discarded
குப்பை kuppai
container
தொட்டி toṭṭi, குப்பைத்தொட்டி kuppaittoṭṭi
something of poor quality
குப்பை kuppai

trash in Marathi

कचरापेटी

trash in Urdu

things to be discarded
کَچْرا kacrā, کُوڑا kūṛā
More languagesFewer languages
trash in Bengali
আবর্জনা, বাজে বস্তু, ছাই, ছাইপাঁশ
trash in Malayalam
ചപ്പ് cappŭ, ചവറ് cavaṟŭ, കുപ്പ kuppa, കച്ചറ kaccaṟa
trash in Kannada
ಸತ್ತೆ, ಸೆದೆ, ಕಸಕಡ್ಡಿ, ಕಸದಬುಟ್ಟಿ
trash in Punjabi
ਰੱਦੀ
trash in Gujarati
કચરો kacro
trash in Assamese
জাবৰ zabor
trash in Tagalog
basura, kalat
trash in Arabic
زُبَالَة zubāla, نُفَايَات nufāyāt, قُمَامَة qumāma, مُخَلَّفَات muḵallafāt
trash in Indonesian
sampah
trash in Persian
زباله zobâle, آشغال âšġâl, خاکروبه xâkrube
trash in Thai
ขยะ kà-yà, กาก gàak
trash in Vietnamese
rác
trash in Myanmar
အမှိုက် a.hmuik

Examples of trash in a sentence

  • […][soap opera] serials have often been regarded as trash and largely been ignored in the 'serious' literature and research.2004, Cecilia von Feilitzen, Young People, Soap Operas and Reality TV, →ISBN:
  • Fans of trash horror other and devalue slasher-cycle horror as overly commercial or nonunderground.2007 October 24, Jeffrey Sconce, Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page...
  • These are the wonders and dilemmas of genuine exploitation cinema: Wishman is wish fulfillment for every fan of trash extravaganzas.2007, Steven Jay Schneider, 501 Movie Directors, B.E.S. Publishing:

All 40 example sentences with trash

Synonyms of trash

30 more synonymsFewer synonyms

All synonyms of trash

Forms of trash

Noun
pluraltrashes
Verb
third-person singular presenttrashes
present participletrashing
past participletrashed
pasttrashed

Past tense of trash: trashed

Plural of trash: trashes

Origin of trash

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 Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

Words formed from trash

Phrases with trash

32 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with trash

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about trash

What does trash mean?
Trash means useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
What is trash in Hindi?
Trash in Hindi is कूड़ा (kūṛā), कूड़ेदान (kūṛedān), कचरा पात्र (kacrā pātra). See Trash meaning in Hindi.
How do you use trash in a sentence?
[…][soap opera] serials have often been regarded as trash and largely been ignored in the 'serious' literature and research.
What part of speech is trash?
Trash can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce trash?
Trash is pronounced /tɹæʃ/.
What is the plural of trash?
The plural of trash is trashes.

Words near trash in the dictionary

  1. trasarenus
  2. traseolide
  3. trasfected
  4. trasformism
  5. trasformismo
  6. trash
  7. trash bag
  8. trash bags
  9. trash bandit
  10. trash bandits
  11. trash bin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trash (page history and authors); trash (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trash (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കച്ചറ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); trash (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trash (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કચરો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); জাবৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-trash.ogg.

Cite this entry: “trash.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/trash. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.