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Traditional English :: trash
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trasvestite.html - n. & v. --n. 1 esp. US worthless or waste stuff; rubbish, refuse.
2 a worthless person or persons.
3 a thing of poor workmanship or material.
4 (in full cane-trash) W.Ind. the refuse of crushed sugar canes and dried stripped leaves and tops of sugar cane used as fuel. --v.tr.
1 esp. US colloq. wreck.
2 strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to speed up the ripening process.
3 esp. US colloq. expose the worthless nature of; disparage. trash can US a dustbin. trash-ice (on a sea, lake, etc.) broken ice mixed with water. [16th c.: orig. unkn.] |
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Traditional English :: trashy
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trasvestite.html - adj. (trashier, trashiest) worthless; poorly made. trashily adv. trashiness n. |
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Traditional English :: trass
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trasvestite.html - n.
(also tarras) a light-coloured tuff used as cement-material. [Du. trass, earlier terras, tiras f. Rmc: cf. TERRACE] |
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English Idioms :: trace
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trasvestite.html - See: KICK OVER THE TRACES also JUMP THE TRACES. |
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English Idioms :: track
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trasvestite.html - See: COVER ONE'S TRACKS, IN ONE'S TRACKS, INSIDE TRACK, JUMP THE TRACK, KEEP TRACK, LOSE TRACK, MAKE TRACKS, OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, ON THE TRACK OF, THE TRACKS. |
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English Idioms :: track down
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trasvestite.html - {v.} To find by or as if by following tracks or a trail. * /The hunters tracked down game in the forest./ * /She spent weeks in the library tracking the reference down in all their hooks on the subject./ Compare: HUNT DOWN. |
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