Trash  

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Waste, rubbish, trash, garbage, or junk is unwanted or undesired material.

Namesakes

• "Trash" (New York Dolls song), a song by the New York Dolls
• Trash (1970 film), a 1970 American film
• "Trash, Art, and the Movies" (1969), an essay by Pauline Kael

Noun

1. Useless things to be discarded
2. A container into which things are discarded
3. Something of poor quality
4. (slang, usually derogatory) Lower class people (white trash)

Etymology

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). 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 (“rottenness, rubbish”).

Trash culture

Trash culture is an instance of low culture. The term trash culture redirects here.

Related lemme are bad taste, exploitation, Euro-trash, grindhouse film theatres, junk, Mondo films, sleaze, trash cinema, trash fiction, trash-talk and white trash.

Bibliography

• Kitsch: The world of Bad Taste (1968) by Gillo Dorfles
• The Redneck Manifesto (1997) - Jim Goad
• Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002) - Jacques Boyreau
• An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction (1990) - Thomas John Roberts
• Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition - Richard Keller Simon
• Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience (1997) - Deborah Cartmell, I. Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, Imelda Whelehan
• The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (2003) - Stacey Michele Olster

See also

• Low culture
• Nobrow
• Dirt