Home » Dictionary » trashout

trashout

trashout
 n.— «Professionals in the insurance and lending industry are bracing themselves for all manner of similar situations, as homeowners either trash or simply leave their trash lying around their houses, often taking off without even claiming their furniture.…“We just estimated a trashout yesterday where we’re going to have to drain the pool,” one Fontana, Calif., resident posted on AgentsOnline.Net, a resource and idea site for realtors, “and the stench from it when you enter the backyard is overwhelming.”» —“Can’t Pay Your Mortgage? Trash Your House and Leave” by Scott Thill AlterNet Feb. 1, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Further reading

Insure vs. Ensure

Strictly speaking, the verb insure means to “pay a third party to protect against financial loss,” and ensure means “to make sure” or “make certain” that something occurs. For centuries, however, these words were...

Nurdle, Nerdle, Nodule

The word nurdle, sometimes spelled nerdle, can be used to denote various “small bits of things,” such as styrofoam packing material or detritus in one’s pockets. It may be related to the word nodule. Like thingamabob and whatsit...

Recent posts