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Definition of Trash

Trash

That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

A worthless person.

A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

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.

To follow with violence and trampling.

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Trash Quotations

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Eminem

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Chuck Palahniuk

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.
Henny Youngman

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
Megan Fox

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
Thom Yorke

I'm really white trash.
George Clooney

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
Dennis Rodman

I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.
LL Cool J

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.
Mary Lou Retton

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
Lloyd Alexander

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Pauline Kael

Trash has given us an appetite for art.
Pauline Kael

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
Charlton Heston

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
Stanley Crouch

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
Daniel Ellsberg

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.
Joel Coen

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
Erich von Stroheim

I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
Ed Rendell

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.
Jane Mayer

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
Gabriel Mann

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
Ed Rendell

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.
Michael Richards

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
Ruth Ann Minner

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
Thomas Dekker

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
Ed Rendell

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Trash Translations

trash in German is Schund, Kitsch
trash in Latin is purgamentum, quisquiliae

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