trash

noun

• 1chiefly North American waste material; refuse: the subway entrance was blocked with trash
• cultural items, ideas, or objects of poor quality:if they read at all, they read trash

• 2North American a person or people regarded as being of very low social standing:clubs patronized by rock trash

• 3 (also cane trash) West Indian the leaves, tops, and crushed stems of sugar cane, used as fuel.

verb

• 1 informal, chiefly North American damage or destroy:my apartment’s been totally trashed
• Computing kill (a file or process) or wipe (a disk): she almost trashed the email window

• 2 informal, chiefly North American criticize severely:trade associations trashed the legislation as deficient

• 3 (as adjective trashed) informal intoxicated with alcohol or drugs:there was booze, but nobody really got trashed

• 4strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to ripen them faster.