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trashfires

trashfires is the plural of trashfire.

Meaning of trashfire

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...
  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)

Questions about trashfires

What is trashfires the plural of?
Trashfires is the plural of trashfire.

Words near trashfires in the dictionary

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

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