trashing
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]trashing
- present participle and gerund of trash
Noun
[edit]trashing (countable and uncountable, plural trashings)
- 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 […]
- (US) Dumpster diving.
- (Oxford University) A tradition of throwing food, confetti, etc. over students after their final examinations.