trash-talk

English

Alternative forms

• trash talk, trashtalk

Noun

trash-talk (usually uncountable, plural trash-talks)

1. Insults and disparaging comments directed towards a rival.

Verb

trash-talk (third-person singular simple present trash-talks, present participle trash-talking, simple past and past participle trash-talked)

1. (intransitive) To insult a rival in a disparaging way.
   • 2004 [2000], James Ellroy, Destination: Morgue!, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 6:

     Paret trash-talked Griffith. Paret called him queer.

Synonyms

• talk trash

See also

• sledging

Further reading

• “trash talk v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

• talk trash