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1trash Listen to audio/ˈtræʃ/ noun
[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
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

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