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trash

noun [U] [+ sing/pl verb] (PEOPLE)
 
 
/træʃ/ US informal

Definition

an insulting way of referring to a group of people that you have no respect for: We don't have anything to do with the people in the apartment below us - they're trash.Unpleasant people in generalUnpleasant men
(Definition of trash noun (PEOPLE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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