trash

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Worthless or discarded material or objects; refuse or rubbish.
2. n. Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings.
3. n. The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
4. n. A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: threw the wrapper in the trash.
5. n. Empty words or ideas.
6. n. Worthless or offensive literary or artistic material.
7. n. Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.
8. n. A person or group of people regarded as worthless or contemptible.
9. v. Slang To throw away; discard: trashed the broken toaster.
10. v. Slang To wreck or destroy by or as if by vandalism; reduce to trash or ruins.
11. v. Slang To beat up; assault.
12. v. Slang To subject to scathing criticism or abuse; attack verbally: "The ... professor trashes conservative ... proposals as well as liberal nostrums” ( Michael Marien).
13. v. To remove twigs or branches from.
14. v. To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A low grade of tobacco-leaf. See white Burley tobacco.
2. To discard.
3. To remove the outer leaves from (growing cane). See cane-trash, 2.
4. n. Something broken, snapped, or lopped off; broken or torn bits, as twigs, splinters, rags, and the like. Compare cane-trash and trash-ice.
5. n. Hence, waste; refuse; rubbish; dross; that which is worthless or useless.
6. n. Money.
7. n. A low, worthless person. See white trash.
8. To free from superfluous twigs or branches; lop; crop: as, to trash trees.
9. To wear out; beat down; crush; harass; maltreat; jade.
10. To tramp and shuffle about.
11. n. A clog; anything fastened to a dog or other animal to keep it from ranging widely, straying, leaping fences, or the like.
12. n. Hence A clog or encumbrance, in a metaphorical sense.
13. To hold back by a leash, halter, or leaded collar, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard; clog; encumber; hinder.

Wiktionary

1. n. Useless things to be discarded
2. n. A container into which things are discarded
3. n. Something of poor quality
4. n. slang, derogatory People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash.)
5. n. computing Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
6. v. US To discard.
7. v. US To make into a mess.
8. v. US To beat soundly in a game.
9. v. US To disrespect someone or something

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
2. n. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
3. n. rare A worthless person.
4. n. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
5. v. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
6. v. obsolete To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
7. v. rare 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.
8. v. rare To follow with violence and trampling.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. worthless material that is to be disposed of
2. v. dispose of (something useless or old)
3. n. an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
4. n. nonsensical talk or writing
5. n. worthless people
6. v. express a totally negative opinion of