noun · verb · 21 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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trăsh
/tɹæʃ/
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rhymes with -æʃ
CMU ARPABET:T R AE1 SH
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A container into which things are discarded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: garbage, rubbish
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern, US, countable, uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
noun
Meaning 6
Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scrap
Antonyms: none provided
7
noun
Meaning 7
People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
11
verb
Meaning 11
To make into a mess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Examples
The burglars trashed the house.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
12
verb
Meaning 12
To beat soundly in a game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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13
verb
Meaning 13
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
14
verb
Meaning 14
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: detrash
Antonyms: none provided
15
verb
Meaning 15
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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16
noun
Meaning 16
an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
Across languages
Translations
235 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
زُبَالَة
(zubāla)
— things to be discarded
Arabic:
نُفَايَات
(nufāyāt)
— things to be discarded
Arabic:
قُمَامَة
(qumāma)
— things to be discarded
Arabic:
مُخَلَّفَات
(muḵallafāt)
— things to be discarded
Arabic:
زبالة
(zebāla)
— things to be discarded
Arabic:
زبالة
(zbāle)
— things to be discarded
Armenian:
աղբ
(aġb)
— things to be discarded
Belarusian:
сме́цце
(smjéccje)
— things to be discarded
Belarusian:
смяццё
(smjaccjó)
— things to be discarded
Belarusian:
сьмяцьцё
(sʹmjacʹcjó)
— things to be discarded
Bulgarian:
боклу́к
(boklúk)
— things to be discarded
Bulgarian:
отпа́дъци
(otpádǎci)
— things to be discarded
Burmese:
အမှိုက်
(a.hmuik)
— things to be discarded
Catalan:
brossa
— things to be discarded
Catalan:
escombraries
— things to be discarded
Chamicuro:
s̈hutechi
— things to be discarded
Cherokee:
ᎤᏲ
(uyo)
— things to be discarded
Chinese Mandarin:
垃圾
(lājī, lèsè)
— things to be discarded
Chinese Mandarin:
廢物 /废物
(fèiwù)
— things to be discarded
Czech:
odpad
— things to be discarded
Czech:
odpadky
— things to be discarded
Czech:
smetí
— things to be discarded
Old Czech:
drst
— things to be discarded
Danish:
affald
— things to be discarded
Dutch:
vuilnis
— things to be discarded
Dutch:
vuil
— things to be discarded
Esperanto:
forĵetaĵo
— things to be discarded
Esperanto:
rubo
— things to be discarded
Estonian:
rämps
— things to be discarded
Faroese:
rusk
— things to be discarded
Finnish:
roska
— things to be discarded
Finnish:
rikka
— things to be discarded
Finnish:
jäte
— things to be discarded
French:
déchet
— things to be discarded
West-Frisian:
ôffal
— things to be discarded
Georgian:
ნაგავი
(nagavi)
— things to be discarded
German:
Abfall
— things to be discarded
German:
Mist
— things to be discarded
German:
Müll
— things to be discarded
German:
Unrat
— things to be discarded
German:
Güsel
— things to be discarded
Greek:
απορρίματα
(aporrímata)
— things to be discarded
Greek:
σκουπίδια
(skoupídia)
— things to be discarded
Ancient Greek:
φορυτός
(phorutós)
— things to be discarded
Haitian Creole:
fatra
— things to be discarded
Hebrew:
זבל
(zével)
— things to be discarded
Hindi:
कूड़ा
(kūṛā)
— things to be discarded
Hungarian:
szemét
— things to be discarded
Icelandic:
rusl
— things to be discarded
Indonesian:
sampah
— things to be discarded
Irish:
bruscar
— things to be discarded
Italian:
spazzatura
— things to be discarded
Italian:
immondizia
— things to be discarded
Italian:
rifiuti
— things to be discarded
Japanese:
ごみ
(gomi)
— things to be discarded
Kazakh:
қоқым
(qoqym)
— things to be discarded
Khmer:
សំរាម
(sɑmraam)
— things to be discarded
Khmer:
ឡាប់សង
(lapsɑɑng)
— things to be discarded
Korean:
쓰레기
(sseuregi)
— things to be discarded
Korean:
오물
(omul)
— things to be discarded
Kyrgyz:
таштанды
(taştandı)
— things to be discarded
Lao:
ຂຍະ
(kha nya)
— things to be discarded
Lao:
ຄຸມຝອຽ
(khum fǭi)
— things to be discarded
Lao:
ມູນຝອຽ
(mūn fǭi)
— things to be discarded
Lao:
ສັງການ
(sang kān)
— things to be discarded
Lao:
ຂີ້ເຫຍື້ອ
(khī hư̄ai)
— things to be discarded
Latin:
quisquiliae
— things to be discarded
Latin:
scrūta
— things to be discarded
Lithuanian:
šiukšlė
— things to be discarded
Macedonian:
ѓубре
(ǵubre)
— things to be discarded
Macedonian:
смет
(smet)
— things to be discarded
Manx:
trustyr
— things to be discarded
Māori:
kapurangi
— things to be discarded
Navajo:
tsʼiilzéí
— things to be discarded
Norwegian Bokmål:
avfall
— things to be discarded
Norwegian Bokmål:
søppel
— things to be discarded
Norwegian Bokmål:
boss
— things to be discarded
Occitan:
bordilha
— things to be discarded
Persian:
زباله
(zobâle)
— things to be discarded
Persian:
آشغال
(âšġâl)
— things to be discarded
Persian:
خاکروبه
(xâkrube)
— things to be discarded
Plautdietsch:
Schunt
— things to be discarded
Plautdietsch:
Auffaul
— things to be discarded
Plautdietsch:
Aufgank
— things to be discarded
Polish:
śmieci
— things to be discarded
Portuguese:
lixo
— things to be discarded
Quechua:
q'upa
— things to be discarded
Romagnol:
rùsco
— things to be discarded
Romanian:
lucru nevaloros
— things to be discarded
Romanian:
rebut
— things to be discarded
Romanian:
gunoi
— things to be discarded
Romanian:
rămășițe
— things to be discarded
Romanian:
reziduu
— things to be discarded
Romanian:
deșeu
— things to be discarded
Russian:
му́сор
(músor)
— things to be discarded
Serbo-Croatian:
о̏тпа̄д
— things to be discarded
Serbo-Croatian:
смѐће
— things to be discarded
Serbo-Croatian:
ȍtpād
— things to be discarded
Serbo-Croatian:
smèće
— things to be discarded
Slovak:
odpad
— things to be discarded
Slovak:
odpadky
— things to be discarded
Slovene:
smet
— things to be discarded
Lower Sorbian:
wótpadki
— things to be discarded
Lower Sorbian:
wótpadanki
— things to be discarded
Spanish:
basura
— things to be discarded
Spanish:
tlazol
— things to be discarded
Spanish:
tlazole
— things to be discarded
Spanish:
clazol
— things to be discarded
Swedish:
skräp
— things to be discarded
Tagalog:
basura
— things to be discarded
Tagalog:
kalat
— things to be discarded
Tamil:
குப்பை
(kuppai)
— things to be discarded
Thai:
ขยะ
(kà-yà)
— things to be discarded
Thai:
กาก
(gàak)
— things to be discarded
Tibetan:
ཕུང་རྫས
(phung rdzas)
— things to be discarded
Tibetan:
གད་ཉིག
(gad nyig)
— things to be discarded
Tibetan:
སྙིགས་མ་
(snyigs ma)
— things to be discarded
Tok Pisin:
pipia
— things to be discarded
Turkish:
çöp
— things to be discarded
Ukrainian:
сміття́
(smittjá)
— things to be discarded
Urdu:
کَچْرا
(kacrā)
— things to be discarded
Urdu:
کُوڑا
(kūṛā)
— things to be discarded
Vietnamese:
rác
— things to be discarded
Welsh:
sbwriel
— things to be discarded
Yoruba:
pàǹtí
— things to be discarded
Arabic:
سَلُّة الْمُهْمَلَات
— container
Armenian:
աղբաման
(aġbaman)
— container
Bulgarian:
ко́шче за боклу́к
(kóšče za boklúk)
— container
Danish:
affaldscontainer
— container
Dutch:
vuilnisbak
— container
Finnish:
roskakori
— container
Finnish:
jäteastia
— container
Finnish:
roskalaatikko
— container
Finnish:
roskis
— container
Finnish:
roska-astia
— container
Finnish:
paperikori
— container
French:
corbeille à papier
— container
German:
Mistkübel
— container
German:
Mülleimer
— container
German:
Papierkorb
— container
Hebrew:
פח אשפה
(pakh-'ashpá)
— container
Hindi:
कूड़ेदान
(kūṛedān)
— container
Hindi:
कचरा पात्र
(kacrā pātra)
— container
Italian:
cassonetto
— container
Portuguese:
lixo
— container
Portuguese:
lixeira
— container
Romanian:
coș de hârtii
— container
Slovene:
smetnjak
— container
Slovene:
koš
— container
Spanish:
caneca
— container
Spanish:
papelera
— container
Swedish:
papperskorg
— container
Tamil:
தொட்டி
(toṭṭi)
— container
Tamil:
குப்பைத்தொட்டி
(kuppaittoṭṭi)
— container
Armenian:
աղբ
(aġb)
— something of poor quality
Armenian:
զիբիլ
(zibil)
— something of poor quality
Bulgarian:
боклу́к
(boklúk)
— something of poor quality
Danish:
skrammel
— something of poor quality
Dutch:
prul
— something of poor quality
Finnish:
roska
— something of poor quality
Finnish:
romu
— something of poor quality
Georgian:
ნაგავი
(nagavi)
— something of poor quality
Ancient Greek:
λῆρος
(lêros)
— something of poor quality
Italian:
mondezza
— something of poor quality
Italian:
porcheria
— something of poor quality
Italian:
robaccia
— something of poor quality
Korean:
개털
(gaeteol)
— something of poor quality
Portuguese:
lixo
— something of poor quality
Portuguese:
porcaria
— something of poor quality
Russian:
дрянь
(drjanʹ)
— something of poor quality
Russian:
ерунда́
(jerundá)
— something of poor quality
Russian:
халту́ра
(xaltúra)
— something of poor quality
Spanish:
basura
— something of poor quality
Swedish:
skräp
— something of poor quality
Tamil:
குப்பை
(kuppai)
— something of poor quality
Yiddish:
שלאָק
(shlok)
— something of poor quality
Armenian:
թափթփուկ
(tʻapʻtʻpʻuk)
— people of low social status or class
Finnish:
roskaväki
— people of low social status or class
Finnish:
roskajoukko
— people of low social status or class
German:
Bodensatz (der Gesellschaft)
— people of low social status or class
German:
Unterschicht
— people of low social status or class
Italian:
feccia
— people of low social status or class
Korean:
개털
(gaeteol)
— people of low social status or class
Portuguese:
lixo
— people of low social status or class
Portuguese:
escória
— people of low social status or class
Portuguese:
gentalha
— people of low social status or class
Russian:
отро́дье
(otródʹje)
— people of low social status or class
Russian:
отре́бье
(otrébʹje)
— people of low social status or class
Russian:
шваль
(švalʹ)
— people of low social status or class
Spanish:
basura
— people of low social status or class
Spanish:
escoria
— people of low social status or class