trashing

English

Verb

trashing

  1. present participle and gerund of trash

Noun

trashing (countable and uncountable, plural trashings)

  1. The act by which something is trashed.
    • 1995, Gary A. Olson, Elizabeth Hirsh, Women Writing Culture, page 136:
      One of the most recent trashings of my work was by Sara Suleri in an issue of Critical Inquiry.
    • 2001, Kathleen M. Blee, France Winddance Twine, Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice, page 238:
      As news about the cinema trashings spread, they aroused widespread protest […]
  2. (US) Dumpster diving.
  3. (Oxford University) A tradition of throwing food, confetti, etc. over students after their final examinations.

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