Etymology From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
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:
When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
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A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
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Agriculture, Business, LifestyleSouthern, 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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Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
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Canada, US, Derogatory, Slang People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
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LifestyleCanada, US, Humorous, Slang A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
I am Harry Potter trash.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
Etymology From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66:
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
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To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies:
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To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' mec. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):