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trashola en · NOUN

Etymology

From trash + -ola.

Meanings

  1. (US, informal, uncountable) Trash; rubbish; anything worthless.
    • Last week's hit single will fall prey to the newest English import; last month's cult film is this month's trashola; and the starlets that parade the covers of People usually fade before their four-color posters hit the remainder tables. 1982 April 17, Michael Bronsky, “What Are These Men Really Selling and Whom Are They Trying to Fool”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
    • […] trashola you think he is. He just happens to be incredibly exuberant. 1989, Kansas Quarterly (volume 21, issues 1-2, page 163)
    • […] trashola prose features regular dollops of sub-literate laziness (including non-words like "arousement" and "assertation"). 1986, Daniel G. Marowski, Contemporary Literary Criticism, page 382: