[noncount] 1 US a : things that are no longer useful or wanted and that have been thrown away
▪ Trash [=rubbish] was strewn throughout the yard. ▪ Take out the trash, please. ▪ Raccoons were going through our trash. [=garbage]
b : a container where people put things that are being thrown away
▪ I put/threw the dirty diaper in the trash. 2 informal : something that is very low in quality
▪ There's nothing but trash [=rubbish] on TV these days. ▪ I can't believe you're reading that trash. 3 chiefly US, informal + disapproving : someone who has very low social status or who is not respected
▪ She thinks that they're all trash. ▪ They treated him like trash. [=treated him very badly] — see also trailer trash, white trash
▪ Trash [=rubbish] was strewn throughout the yard. ▪ Take out the trash, please. ▪ Raccoons were going through our trash. [=garbage]
b : a container where people put things that are being thrown away
▪ I put/threw the dirty diaper in the trash.
▪ There's nothing but trash [=rubbish] on TV these days. ▪ I can't believe you're reading that trash.
▪ She thinks that they're all trash. ▪ They treated him like trash. [=treated him very badly] — see also trailer trash, white trash
talk trash
US, informal : to say insulting things especially to an opponent in a contest, game, etc.
▪ Players on both teams were talking trash. — see also trash talk
▪ Players on both teams were talking trash. — see also trash talk





