trash out

English

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) To criticize a person in a ranting way or manner.
   • 1980, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses, Columbia Records:

     Friday night I crashed your party. / Saturday I said I'm sorry. / Sunday came 'n' [you] trashed me out again.

2. (informal, intransitive) To stop working; to crap out.

   My computer trashed out again.

3. (transitive) To remove trash and other items from an abandoned house.

   The bank hired me to trash this house out.

4. (transitive) To ruin (a place) with vandalism, garbage, etc.

   The rock band trashed out the hotel room.

5. (transitive) To make (a place or thing) trashy or low-class.

   They're going to trash out the neighborhood.

6. (transitive) To insult, demean and criticize (someone).

   You shouldn't trash people out like that.

7. Misspelling of thrash out.