trash
/tɹæʃ/ noun B1- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality. · When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
- Media, such as movies and novels, that are entertaining but unsophisticated, crass or aimed at the lowest common denominator. · My guilty pleasure is 80s horror trash.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
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Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Repair cafés keep useful objects out of the trash, and they bring neighbors together.
Ade suggested, “I can take out the trash every Tuesday morning.”
For years, it was full of old trash and broken glass.
The very next Saturday, everyone arrived with gloves and trash bags.
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