trash

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: trăsh, IPA: /træʃ/, SAMPA: /tr{S/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

trash (uncountable)

1. Useless things to be discarded
2. A container into which things are discarded
3. Something of poor quality
4. (slang, usually derogatory) Lower class people (as in white trash)
5. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

Synonyms

• garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste
• (container): trash can
• See also Wikisaurus:trash

Related terms

trailer trash trash can trashed trash fish

trashman trashmover trashy

Translations

things to be discarded

Arabic: مخلفات (ar) Armenian: աղբ (hy) (aġb) Chamicuro: s̈hutechi Chinese: 垃圾 (lājī) Croatian: smeće (hr) Danish: affald (da) n. Dutch: vuilnis (nl) m., vuil (nl) n. Estonian: rämps (et) Finnish: roska (fi) German: Müll (de) m., Abfall (de) m. Haitian Creole: fatra Hungarian: szemét (hu) Italian: spazzatura (it) f., immondizia (it) f., rifiuti (it) Japanese: ごみ (ja) (gomi) Kazakh: қоқым (kk)

Korean: 쓰레기 (ko) (sseuregi) Lithuanian: šiukšlė (lt) f. Mandarin: 废物 (fèiwù) Manx: trustyr (gv) Navajo: tsʼiilzéí Norwegian: avfall (no) n., søppel (no) n., boss (no) n. Portuguese: lixo (pt) Romagnolo: rùsco m. Romanian: lucru nevaloros (ro) n., rebut (ro) n., gunoi (ro) n., rămășițe (ro) f. pl., reziduu (ro) n., deșeu n. Russian: мусор (ru) Slovene: smet (sl) f. Spanish: basura (es) Tok Pisin: pipia West Frisian: ôffal (fy) n.

container

Armenian: աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman), զիբիլի յաշիկ (hy) (zibili yašik) Dutch: vuilnisbak (nl) Finnish: roskakori (fi) French: corbeille à papier German: Papierkorb (de) m.

Italian: cassonetto (it) m. Romanian: coș de hârtii (ro) n. Slovene: smetnjak m., koš m. Spanish: caneca f., papelera f.

something of poor quality

Armenian: աղբ (hy) (aġb), զիբիլ (hy) (zibil) Dutch: prul (nl) m. Finnish: roska (fi)

Italian: mondezza (it) f., porcheria (it) f., robaccia (it) f. Spanish: basura (es) f.

lower class people

Armenian: թափթփուկ (hy) (t’ap’t’p’uk) Finnish: roskaväki

Italian: feccia (it) f.

computer terminology

Finnish: roskakori (fi) French: corbeille (fr) f. German: Mülleimer (de) m.

Luxembourgish: Poubelle (lb) f. Portuguese: lixeira (pt) f. Spanish: papelera (es) f.

Verb

trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)

1. (US) To discard.
2. (US) To make into a mess.

   The burglars trashed the house.

3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
4. (US) To disrespect someone or something

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:junk

Translations

discard

Finnish: heittää pois German: wegwerfen (de)

Italian: scartare (it) Tok Pisin: tromwe

make into a mess

Finnish: sotkea (fi)

German: in Unordnung bringen

beat soundly

Dutch: kapotmaken,stukslaan (nl) Finnish: löylyttää (fi)

German: verhauen

Derived terms

• trash out

See also

recycle bin

Anagrams

• harts
• raths