Trash
noun
Unwanted or useless items or materials.
Please put the trash in the garbage can.
Often appears as...
- take out the trash
- trash bin
verb
To throw away or to dispose off.
She trashed the worn-out clothes.
Often appears as...
- trash it
- trash them
verb
To badly damage or destroy.
The kids trashed the room while playing.
Often appears as...
- trash the room
- trash the place
noun
Person with low standards or behavior.
Don’t behave like trash at the party.
Often appears as...
- white trash
- trashy behavior
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Something of very low quality.
This movie is total trash.
Often appears as...
- trash tv
- trash movie
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Unwanted or useless items or materials.
Please put the trash in the garbage can.
Often appears as...
- take out the trash
- trash bin
verb
To throw away or to dispose off.
She trashed the worn-out clothes.
Often appears as...
- trash it
- trash them
verb
To badly damage or destroy.
The kids trashed the room while playing.
Often appears as...
- trash the room
- trash the place
noun
Person with low standards or behavior.
Don’t behave like trash at the party.
Often appears as...
- white trash
- trashy behavior
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Something of very low quality.
This movie is total trash.
Often appears as...
- trash tv
- trash movie
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Objects
Use 'trash' for physical items you're throwing away, not for abstract concepts.
Broken toys and old papers were all considered trash.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Recycling
'Trash' often means items not recycled, so don't confuse with 'recyclables'.
The glass bottles go in the recycling, not the trash.
Pro Tip 3/3American Usage
'Trash' is most commonly used in American English; 'rubbish' is British.
I need to take out the trash, while my British friend takes out the rubbish.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Objects
Use 'trash' for physical items you're throwing away, not for abstract concepts.
Broken toys and old papers were all considered trash.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Recycling
'Trash' often means items not recycled, so don't confuse with 'recyclables'.
The glass bottles go in the recycling, not the trash.
Pro Tip 3/3American Usage
'Trash' is most commonly used in American English; 'rubbish' is British.
I need to take out the trash, while my British friend takes out the rubbish.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Objects
Use 'trash' for physical items you're throwing away, not for abstract concepts.
Broken toys and old papers were all considered trash.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Recycling
'Trash' often means items not recycled, so don't confuse with 'recyclables'.
The glass bottles go in the recycling, not the trash.
Pro Tip 3/3American Usage
'Trash' is most commonly used in American English; 'rubbish' is British.
I need to take out the trash, while my British friend takes out the rubbish.
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How much of human...
and what life was like millennia ago. So what exactly can we find? At shallow depths mingled in with modern-day items, we've discovered all sorts of ancient artifacts. This zone contains evidence of how our ancestors fished, how they repaired their ships, disposed of their trash,
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How Do You Make a...
around the world to take stuff that already exists repurpose it give it a new life that's pretty much what I do for everything so so I rephrased the challenge in my brain I thought what do I give a about and can that be made out of trash and like one second after I
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The thrilling potential...
A coffee cup will show where you can find more coffee, or where you can trash the cup. So, these were some of the earlier explorations I did because the goal was to connect these two worlds seamlessly. Among all these experiments, there was one thing in
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The Astronaut of the...
so we'll find our trash or other forms of pollution we'll see you know trawl marks from a fishing net that dragged along the sea floor and more and more climate change for instance is becoming a really massive issue a lot of deep sea animals are um
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You are your microbes -...
by converting them into chemicals, like alcohol and hydrogen gas, which they spew out as waste products. Deeper in the depths of our gut city, the syntrophs eke out a living off the fermenters' trash. At each step of this process,
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
coming home but I'm wondering who's going to take out my hazardous waste trash this is our revolution we all have to do this you guys so with biomimicry the work that I'm in we look to the natural world and say how can nature
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Gyre: Creating Art From...
well I'm pegged with the the title project leader I feel now I'm just a facilitator helping create the stage for these voices to come together on to me there's a deeply offensive concept behind plastic trash cluttering the
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The economic injustice...
you arrive at a very troubling but also very helpful In order to trash the planet, you have to trash people. But if you create a world where you don't trash people, you can't trash the planet. So now we are at a moment
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The family I lost in...
I have not seen my mom or my sister since then. Suddenly, I became an orphan and homeless. My daily life became very hard, but very simple. My goal was to find a dusty piece of bread in the trash.
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Trash of a Human...
another plastic bag in the trash can over a lifetime we'll each throw away enough of it to fill up one of those trucks that's twenty nine thousand seven hundred pounds fifteen
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How much of human...
and what life was like millennia ago. So what exactly can we find? At shallow depths mingled in with modern-day items, we've discovered all sorts of ancient artifacts. This zone contains evidence of how our ancestors fished, how they repaired their ships, disposed of their trash,
Video examples
How Do You Make a...
around the world to take stuff that already exists repurpose it give it a new life that's pretty much what I do for everything so so I rephrased the challenge in my brain I thought what do I give a about and can that be made out of trash and like one second after I
Video examples
The thrilling potential...
A coffee cup will show where you can find more coffee, or where you can trash the cup. So, these were some of the earlier explorations I did because the goal was to connect these two worlds seamlessly. Among all these experiments, there was one thing in
Video examples
The Astronaut of the...
so we'll find our trash or other forms of pollution we'll see you know trawl marks from a fishing net that dragged along the sea floor and more and more climate change for instance is becoming a really massive issue a lot of deep sea animals are um
Video examples
You are your microbes -...
by converting them into chemicals, like alcohol and hydrogen gas, which they spew out as waste products. Deeper in the depths of our gut city, the syntrophs eke out a living off the fermenters' trash. At each step of this process,
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
coming home but I'm wondering who's going to take out my hazardous waste trash this is our revolution we all have to do this you guys so with biomimicry the work that I'm in we look to the natural world and say how can nature
Video examples
Gyre: Creating Art From...
well I'm pegged with the the title project leader I feel now I'm just a facilitator helping create the stage for these voices to come together on to me there's a deeply offensive concept behind plastic trash cluttering the
Video examples
The economic injustice...
you arrive at a very troubling but also very helpful In order to trash the planet, you have to trash people. But if you create a world where you don't trash people, you can't trash the planet. So now we are at a moment
Video examples
The family I lost in...
I have not seen my mom or my sister since then. Suddenly, I became an orphan and homeless. My daily life became very hard, but very simple. My goal was to find a dusty piece of bread in the trash.
Video examples
Trash of a Human...
another plastic bag in the trash can over a lifetime we'll each throw away enough of it to fill up one of those trucks that's twenty nine thousand seven hundred pounds fifteen
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Quote examples
Timothy Weah
American Athlete
There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.
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Lady Colin Campbell
British Writer
Let's be clear about what an oik is, it is somebody from humble circumstance who behaves like trash. I am friends with many people from humble circumstances.
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Sonny Bill Williams
New Zealander Athlete
I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.
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Pauline Kael
American Critic
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
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Jose Aldo
Brazilian Athlete
We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It's important.
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Jon Jones
American Athlete
I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.
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Tyson Gay
American Athlete
I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.
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Tom Bateman
English Actor
Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.
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John Wall
American Athlete
When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.
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Rafael dos Anjos
Brazilian Athlete
I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.
Quote examples
Timothy Weah
American Athlete
There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.
Quote examples
Lady Colin Campbell
British Writer
Let's be clear about what an oik is, it is somebody from humble circumstance who behaves like trash. I am friends with many people from humble circumstances.
Quote examples
Sonny Bill Williams
New Zealander Athlete
I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.
Quote examples
Pauline Kael
American Critic
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Quote examples
Jose Aldo
Brazilian Athlete
We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It's important.
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Jon Jones
American Athlete
I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.
Quote examples
Tyson Gay
American Athlete
I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.
Quote examples
Tom Bateman
English Actor
Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.
Quote examples
John Wall
American Athlete
When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.
Quote examples
Rafael dos Anjos
Brazilian Athlete
I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.
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