trash-talk

• trash talk, trashtalk

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

1. (informal) Insults and disparaging comments directed towards a rival.

   Synonym: trash talking

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

1. (informal, transitive) To insult a rival in a disparaging way.

   Synonyms: talk shit, talk trash (US), talk shite (UK); see also Thesaurus:defame

   • 2004 [2000], James Ellroy, Destination: Morgue!, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 6:

     Paret trash-talked Griffith. Paret called him queer.

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

• talk trash