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trash out

trash out verb: to criticize a person in a ranting way or manner. Also the misspelling of thrash out.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To criticize a person in a ranting way or manner.
    • Friday night I crashed your party. / Saturday I said I'm sorry. / Sunday came 'n' [you] trashed me out again.1980, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses, Columbia Records
  2. (informal, intransitive) To stop working; to crap out.
    • My computer trashed out again.
  3. (transitive) To remove trash and other items from an abandoned house.
    • The bank hired me to trash this house out.
  4. (transitive) To ruin (a place) with vandalism, garbage, etc.
    • The rock band trashed out the hotel room.
  5. (transitive) To make (a place or thing) trashy or low-class.
    • They're going to trash out the neighborhood.
  6. (transitive) To insult, demean and criticize (someone).
    • You shouldn't trash people out like that.

Also used as

trash out is also the misspelling of thrash out.

Forms of trash out

third-person singular presenttrashes out
present participletrashing out
past participletrashed out
pasttrashed out

Questions about trash out

What does trash out mean?
Trash out means to criticize a person in a ranting way or manner.
What part of speech is trash out?
Trash out is a verb.
What is the past tense of trash out?
The past tense of trash out is trashed out.

Words near trash out in the dictionary

  1. trash ice
  2. trash line
  3. trash man
  4. trash mob
  5. trash mobs
  6. trash out
  7. trash panda
  8. trash pandas
  9. trash pull
  10. trash pulls
  11. trash rack

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