trash

(trăsh)

1. a. Worthless or discarded material or objects; refuse or rubbish.
   b. Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings.
   c. The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
2. A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: threw the wrapper in the trash.
3. a. Empty words or ideas.
   b. Worthless or offensive literary or artistic material.
   c. Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.
4. A person or group of people regarded as worthless or contemptible.

1. Slang
   a. To throw away; discard: trashed the broken toaster.
   b. To wreck or destroy by or as if by vandalism; reduce to trash or ruins.
   c. To beat up; assault.
   d. To subject to scathing criticism or abuse; attack verbally: “The … professor trashes conservative … proposals as well as liberal nostrums” (Michael Marien).
2. a. To remove twigs or branches from.
   b. To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).