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trashfire

trashfire noun: fire resulting from trash burning.

Noun

trashfire (plural trashfires)

  1. Fire resulting from trash burning.
    • Children have been burned by sparks from trashfires, open flames of stoves, unscreened fireplaces, contact with pilot lights of space heaters, or by sticking ' metal objects in wall sockets.1967, Flammable Fabrics Act Amendments of 1967: Hearings Before the Consumer Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, on S. 1003...
    • Island Trashfires[…]Adjacent to the garbage dump (an open sore that drains the Island's poisons around the clock), old convairs lift and lower / over trashfires and the bellies of pedigreed sharks—pampered, overfed, domesticated.1973, Laurence Lieberman, The Osprey Suicides: Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Collier-Macmillan Publishers, page 59
  2. (figuratively) A dumpster fire; a disaster.
    • Putting out the Twitter trashfire / Tonight I’m drinking and talking about ways Twitter could be less of a shitheap.2016 February 13, Randi Lee Harper, Medium (published in ART + marketing)
    • Elex Is The Biggest Trashfire I've Played All Year, But I Still Love It / Elex is a terribly constructed video game full of glitches, lag, eye-sores, and confusing mechanics.2017 December 6, Patricia Hernandez, Kotaku

Examples of trashfire in a sentence

  • Further and further into what, I suppose, was a state of being I thought befitted some guy whose fucking dad had died around a trashfire in some field ten blocks away.2016, David Cornwell, Like It Matters, Umuzi, →ISBN:
  • Or, more precisely, what if they’re no more unhappy than any other children growing up on this trashfire of a planet?2018, Darach Ó Séaghdha, “Multilingual Children”, in Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language, Apollo, →ISBN:
  • It brings happiness to all, even in the trashfire year that was 2018.2018 December 29, Ellen Scott, “The 27 best cats of 2018”, in Metro:
  • ‘Get Krack!n’ Is The Perfect Antidote To Trashfire Breakfast TV Like ‘Sunrise’2019 April 4, Cameron Colwell, Junkee:

Forms of trashfire

pluraltrashfires

Origin of trashfire

From trash + fire.

Questions about trashfire

What does trashfire mean?
Trashfire means fire resulting from trash burning.
How do you use trashfire in a sentence?
Further and further into what, I suppose, was a state of being I thought befitted some guy whose fucking dad had died around a trashfire in some field ten blocks away.
What part of speech is trashfire?
Trashfire is a noun.
What is the plural of trashfire?
The plural of trashfire is trashfires.

Words near trashfire in the dictionary

  1. trasheries
  2. trashers
  3. trashery
  4. trashes
  5. trashes out
  6. trashfire
  7. trashfires
  8. Trashi Yangtse
  9. Trashiding
  10. trashier
  11. trashiest

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