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(chiefly, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
* Landor
A container into which things are discarded.
Something worthless or of poor quality.
(slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class.
(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
(US) To discard.
* 1989 , InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)
(US) To make into a mess.
(US) To beat soundly in a game.
(US) 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.
(uncountable, computing, Internet) A collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
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(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
(countable, rare, computing, Internet) An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, usually by email or newsgroups.
(tinned meat product)
(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
(transitive, by extension, video games) To relentlessly attack an enemy with (a spell or ability).
(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To post the same text repeatedly with disruptive effect; to flood.
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As a noun trash
is (chiefly|us) useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.As a verb trash
is (us) to discard.As a proper noun spam is
tinned meat made mainly from ham by hormel foods corporation.trash
English
Noun
(-)- A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
- (Markham)
Synonyms
* garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste * (container) trash can * See alsoDerived terms
* trailer trash * trash bag * trash can * trashed * trashery * trash fish * trashman * trashmover * trashy * white trashVerb
(es)- Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
- The burglars trashed the house.
- to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* trash outSee also
recycle binAnagrams
* *spam
English
Noun
citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
Derived terms
* * * * *Meronyms
* e-mail, emailVerb
(spamm)- Stop spamming that special attack!
See also
* *Official SPAM home page