Definition of Trash

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Definition of Trash

Trash

That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

A worthless person.

A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

To follow with violence and trampling.

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Trash Quotations

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.
Henny Youngman

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Chuck Palahniuk

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Eminem

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
Dennis Rodman

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
Megan Fox

I'm really white trash.
George Clooney

Trash Translations

trash in German is Schund, Kitsch
trash in Latin is purgamentum, quisquiliae

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