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Trashing

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.

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trashing

n. The act by which something is trashed. vb. (present participle of trash English)

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Trashing

Trashing may refer to:

  • Garbage picking, particularly if used to obtain documents or confidential information
  • Information diving
  • Vandalism

Usage examples of "trashing".

I got scared the first couple of times, but fortunately I was with some GEE veterans who were old hands at trashing press conferences.

If nothing else, the underground had made a thorough job of trashing the detention center and destroying Wormboy, before the raiding force was betrayed and routed.

This is where the street action lives: The bars, the hustlers, the drug market, the whores -- and also the riots, the trashings, killings, gassings, the sporadic bloody clashes with the hated, common enemy: The cops, the Pigs, the Man, that blue-crusted army of fearsome gabacho troops from the East L.