[trash] n [of Scand origin; akin to Norw trask trash; akin to ON tros fallen leaves and twigs, OE trus] (ca. 1518) 1: something worth little or nothing: as a: junk, rubbish b (1): empty talk: nonsense (2): inferior or worthless writing or artistic matter; also: such material intended purely for entertainment
2: something in a crumbled or broken condition or mass; esp: debris from pruning or processing plant material
3: a worthless person; also: such persons as a group: riffraff
[2]trash vt (ca. 1859) 1: vandalize, destroy
2: attack, assault
3: spoil, ruin "~ing the environment"
4: to subject to criticism or invective; esp: to disparage strongly "a film ~ed by the critics"
5: throw away 1 "standards of reality and truth were ~ed --Edwin Diamond" ~ vi: to trash something or someone