trash

1. noun

1)

the subway entrance was blocked with trash

Syn:

garbage, refuse, waste, litter, junk, debris, detritus, rubbish

2)

if they read at all, they read trash

Syn:

junk, dross, dreck, drivel, nonsense, trivia, pulp, pulp fiction, pap, garbage, rubbish; informal crap, schlock

3) informal

that family is trash

Syn:

scum, vermin, the dregs of society, the lowest of the low; informal the scum of the earth, dirt, riffraff

2. verb

1)

the apartment had been totally trashed

Syn:

wreck, ruin, destroy, wreak havoc on, devastate; vandalize, tear up, bust up, smash; informal total

2)

his play was trashed by the critics

Syn:

criticize, lambaste, censure, attack, insult, abuse, malign, give a bad press to, condemn, flay, savage, pan, knock, take to pieces, take/pull apart, crucify, hammer, slam, bash, trash talk, roast, maul, rubbish, pummel; informal bad-mouth, bitch about