trash

To destroy, e.g. the contents of a data structure. The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble.

[Jargon File]

(1994-11-03)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
 

Trash \Trash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing.]

1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. --B. Edwards. [1913 Webster]

2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]

[1913 Webster]

3. 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. [R.]

--Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Trash \Trash\, n. [Cf. Icel. tros rubbish, leaves, and twigs picked up for fuel, trassi a slovenly fellow, Sw. trasa a rag, tatter.]

1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. [1913 Webster]

Who steals my purse steals trash. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. --Landor. [1913 Webster]

2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like. [1913 Webster]

Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash. --B. Edwards. [1913 Webster]

3. A worthless person. [R.]

--Shak. [1913 Webster]

4. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game. --Markham. [1913 Webster]

Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Trash \Trash\, v. i. To follow with violence and trampling. [R.]

--The Puritan (1607). [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

154 Moby Thesaurus words for "trash": absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, balls, baloney, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bosh, bric-a-brac, brummagem, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, canaille, castaway, castoff, cattle, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, clamjamfry, claptrap, crap, debris, deface, derelict, destroy, details, dirt, discard, dogie, double-talk, dregs, dregs of society, drivel, drool, dross, dust, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, flummery, folderol, foundling, fripperies, frippery, froth, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gimcrackery, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, humbug, jabber, jargon, jetsam, junk, kelter, knickknackery, lagan, leavings, litter, lumber, malarkey, masses, minutiae, mob, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, offscum, orphan, pack of nonsense, palaver, peanuts, piffle, poppycock, prate, prattle, proletariat, raff, ragtag and bobtail, rant, refuse, reject, riffraff, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, rubble, ruin, scoria, scrap, scum, shoddy, skimble-skamble, slag, slog, slop, small beer, small change, sordes, stodge, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, sweepings, swinish multitude, tinsel, toil, trifles, trinkets, trivia, truck, trudge, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, unwashed, vandalize, vaporing, vermin, waffling, waif, waifs and strays, waste, wastrel, wreck

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

trash

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Trash \Trash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing.]

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

2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]

3. 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. [R.]

--Beau. & Fl.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Trash \Trash\, v. i. To follow with violence and trampling. [R.]

--The Puritan (1607).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Trash \Trash\, n. [Cf. Icel. tros rubbish, leaves, and twigs picked up for fuel, trassi a slovenly fellow, Sw. trasa a rag, tatter.]

1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

Who steals my purse steals trash. --Shak.

A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. --Landor.

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

Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash. --B. Edwards.

3. A worthless person. [R.]

--Shak.

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

Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)