trash
(chiefly, North American, metonym) A container into which things are discarded.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(chiefly, North American, metonym) A container into which things are discarded.
I am Harry Potter trash.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(chiefly, North American, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
Drag the unwanted message to the trash.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(chiefly, North American) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
Origin: From , trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from , perhaps related to . Pokorny instead derives it from . Compare , , . Compare also. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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