trash

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trash/traʃ/

▶noun

• 1 N. Amer. waste material; refuse.

• 2 worthless writing, art, etc.

• 3 N. Amer. a person or people regarded as being of very low social standing.

• 4 W. Indian the leaves, tops, and crushed stems of sugar cane, used as fuel.

▶verb

• 1 informal, chiefly N. Amer. wreck or destroy.

• 2 informal, chiefly N. Amer. criticize severely.

• 3 (as adj. trashed) informal intoxicated with alcohol or drugs.

• 4 strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to ripen them faster.

– origin ME: of unknown origin.