Crossword clues for trashing
trashing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trash \Trash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing.]
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
--B. Edwards.To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is trashed. vb. (present participle of trash English)
Wikipedia
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.