trashing out
trashing out is the present participle and gerund of trash out.
Meaning of trash out
Verb
trash out (third-person singular simple present trashes out, present participle trashing out, simple past and past participle trashed out)
- 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
- To stop working; to crap out.
- My computer trashed out again.
- To remove trash and other items from an abandoned house.
- The bank hired me to trash this house out.
- To ruin (a place) with vandalism, garbage, etc.
- The rock band trashed out the hotel room.
- To make (a place or thing) trashy or low-class.
- They're going to trash out the neighborhood.
- To insult, demean and criticize (someone).
- You shouldn't trash people out like that.
Questions about trashing out
- What is trashing out the present participle and gerund of?
- Trashing out is the present participle and gerund of trash out.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trashing out (page history and authors); trash out (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.
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