trashes

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.

   Synonyms:

   trashcan, trash can, trashbin, trash bin, garbage can, rubbish bin, bin

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.
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.

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