trash

Meanings

Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
A container into which things are discarded.
Something worthless or of poor quality.
The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
People of low social status or class.
A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

To discard.
To make into a mess.
To beat soundly in a game.
To disrespect someone or something
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
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.

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros. Compare Norwegian trask ("lumber, trash, baggage"), Swedish trasa ("rag, cloth, worthless fellow"), Swedish trås ("dry fallen twigs, wood-waste"). Compare also Old English þreahs, þreax.

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