Meaning of trashfire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fire resulting from trash burning.
2. A dumpster fire; a disaster.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Children have⟳ been burned by sparks from trashfires, open⟳ flames of stoves, unscreened fireplaces, contact⟳ with pilot lights of space heaters, or by sticking ' metal objects in wall sockets.”

“Island Trashfires[…]Adjacent to the garbage dump⟳ (an open⟳ sore that drains the Island's poisons around the clock), old convairs lift⟳ and lower / over trashfires and the bellies of pedigreed sharks—pampered, overfed, domesticated.”

“He wheeled the last⟳ barrowload of trash from the kitchen yard out to the trashfire and tipped it and stood back and watched the deep orange fire gasping in the dark chuffs of smoke⟳ that rose against the twilight sky.[…]Along the limits of the city where the roads died in the desert in sand washes and garbage dumps, out to the white perimeters at midday where smoke⟳ from the trashfires burned along the horizon like⟳ the signature of vandal hordes come⟳ in off the inscrutable wastes beyond.”

“The air is tinged with the smell⟳ of diesel exhaust⟳, trashfires, and excrement.[…]The haze of trashfires drifted over in a noxious sweet perfume that partially obscured the houses, which emerged like⟳ a long row of broken skulls each morning.”

“Further and further into what, I suppose⟳, was a state of being I thought befitted some guy whose fucking dad had died around a trashfire in some field ten blocks away.”

“Putting out the Twitter trashfire / Tonight I’m drinking and talking about ways Twitter could be less of a shitheap.”

“Elex Is The Biggest Trashfire I've Played All Year, But I Still Love⟳ It / Elex is a terribly constructed video game full of glitches, lag, eye-sores, and confusing mechanics.”

“‘Sure, it’s always the wildest kids who have⟳ the strictest parents.’ ‘Those children must be so unhappy.’ At this moment I had a terrifying thought – what if they’re not unhappy? Or, more precisely, what if they’re no more unhappy than any other children growing up on this trashfire of a planet?”

“Bongo cat has been edited to play⟳ all manner of instruments and songs. It brings happiness to all, even in the trashfire year that was 2018.”

“‘Get⟳ Krack!n’ Is The Perfect Antidote To Trashfire Breakfast TV Like⟳ ‘Sunrise’”

“Hello, sanity. Hello, trashfire century.”

“Before the whole tweet trashfire happened.”

“The Internet didn’t become⟳ a trashfire all of a sudden: it happened over a long period of time.”

“However the claimed ‘ban’ does not apply⟳ if “explicit consent” is obtained from the person whose sensitive data is to be exploited to better target⟳ them with propaganda — and online ‘consents’ to ad targeting are already a total trashfire of non-compliance in the region.”

“Wasn’t this trashfire of an anniversary why Ed, my unfaithful beast of a husband, had been ruing the day so?”

“Opinion: Rudz to Host⟳ Another Transphobic Comedy Trashfire”

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