trash talk

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trash talk

n.
Disparaging, often insulting or vulgar speech about another person or group.

[African American Vernacular English.]
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The trash talked on such occasions was the more vexatious to Lydgate, because it gave precisely the sort of prestige which an incompetent and unscrupulous man would desire, and was sure to be imputed to him by the simmering dislike of the other medical men as an encouragement on his own part of ignorant puffing.
[USA], July 28 (ANI): A study of 200 adults has confirmed the ability of trash talk to negatively affect the game performance of a competitor.
Recently the Daily Herald had a conservative columnist, Byron York, who wrote, "Amid good news can Democrats talk down the economy" and on May 14, the paper published a cartoon that shows the Democratic national headquarters talking about hiring the 3.6% unemployed to trash talk the economy.
Philadelphians, with their history of trash talk, taught Embiid, 24, not to be scared but to be outspoken.
No negative "trash talk" comments about other candidates will be allowed.
"Yung sa amin ni Rashawn, konting trash talk lang," Romeo said.
JASON EASTON has shrugged off trash talk from Glenn Foot and warned his Commonwealth rival he's ready to make the Sunderland scrapper eat his words.
Gamesmanship, also referred to as trash talk, is defined as behavior (often verbal) used to motivate oneself or distract or intimidate one's opponent.
Rio Ferdinand, Manchester United's defender, says in his book that Ian Wright, Arsenal's striker, used to trash talk him, saying, "Look at you poor boy; I smell fear in you.
El Shorbagy played down Matthew's mid-match complaints as trash talk. "It's nothing, just routine, you know what it's like when it gets too tense you trash talk, but I didn't lose focus," he said.
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