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trash

  • noun
  • trăsh

Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

Other meanings

  1. A container into which things are discarded.

  2. Something worthless or of poor quality.

    “When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.”

Synonyms

  • garbage
  • refuse
  • rubbish
  • waste
  • scrap

A kind of

  • waste

Kinds of trash

  • scrap metal
  • debris
  • litter

Related words

  • bartrash
  • trashline
  • Ameritrash
  • betrash
  • cybertrash
  • gendertrash
  • Hamiltrash
  • infotrash
  • Kartrashian
  • microtrash
  • trashbox
  • trasher

Word history

From Middle English "trasch".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “trash” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.