trash
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
Noun 4 meanings
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
A container into which things are discarded.
Something worthless or of poor quality.
“When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.”
Media, such as movies and novels, that are entertaining but unsophisticated, crass or aimed at the lowest common denominator.
“My guilty pleasure is 80s horror trash.”
Verb 4 meanings
To discard.
To make into a mess.
“The burglars trashed the house.”
To beat soundly in a game.
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
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”).
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TRASH at a glance
TRASH has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + S 1 + H 4) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,465 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with trash
All rhymesOne letter away
- CRASH10
- BRASH10
- TRASS5
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