trash

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Worthless or discarded material or objects; refuse or rubbish.
• noun A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded.
• noun Something considered worthless or of inferior quality, such as a piece of writing.
• noun Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.
• noun A person or group of people regarded as worthless or contemptible.
• noun Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings.
• noun The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
• transitive verb To throw away; discard.
• transitive verb To damage or wreck, as by vandalism.
• transitive verb To criticize severely or attack verbally.
• transitive verb To remove twigs or branches from (a tree, for example).
• transitive verb To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
• noun Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
• noun rare A worthless person.
• noun A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
• noun crumbled ice mixed with water.
• transitive verb To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
• transitive verb obsolete To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
• transitive verb 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.
• intransitive verb rare To follow with violence and trampling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun worthless material that is to be disposed of
• verb dispose of (something useless or old)