Trash-talk is a form of boast or insult commonly heard in competitive situations (such as sports events and multiplayer video games). It is often used to intimidate the opposition, but can also be used in a humorous spirit. Trash-talk is often characterized by use of hyperbole, or figurative language, e.g., "Your team can't run! You run like honey on ice!"Puns and other wordplay are commonly used.
Trash-talk was commonly used by the heavyweightboxing champion Muhammad Ali in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1963, Ali even released a well-selling full-length record album consisting largely of trash-talk poetry—and titled it I Am the Greatest!—a phrase that would become his signature line. Since then, it has become common for boxers, wrestlers, and other sports competitors to use trash-talk. However, in amateur sports ranks, trash talking is generally frowned upon as unsportsmanlike conduct (especially in youth leagues).
Other sports
Although the practice of trying to distract opponents by verbal abuse is common to virtually all sports, other sports sometimes have their own terminology for verbal abuse: for example, cricket calls it sledging and in ice hockey it is called chirping. Down Gaelic footballer Brendan Coulter has admitted to being targeted by sledging while on the field of play . The Wealdstone Raider, a notorious fan hailing from Wealdstone, is known for trash-talking the opposition and opposition's fans and has gained fame from doing so as a viral internet sensation.
Trash Talk is an American hardcore punk band from Sacramento, California, formed in 2005. They have toured all around the world including Japan and Europe, as well as performed in many festivals in support of their releases which helped give the band recognition from publications including Rolling Stone.
History
Formed in 2005, Trash Talk soon released a demo on Sell Our Souls Records, as well as a split with Bay Area band Steel Trap in 2006 for Spiderghost Pressgang. Later that year, they signed on to Rumble Records to record their debut album Walking Disease. Trash Talk would later sign to Malfunction Records (imprint of Deathwish Inc.) in 2007 for the release of their EP Plagues; which would later form a compilation with Walking Disease. After extensive touring with bands such as Cruel Hand, they would eventually leave Deathwish Inc. to manage their own label, Trash Talk Collective.
In 2008, Trash Talk traveled to Chicago with Steve Albini to work on their full-length album. 2009 saw the release of their single "East of Eden", featuring vocals from Keith Morris of Off!/Black Flag/Circle Jerks. After the release of "East of Eden," Trash Talk kept a regular tour schedule and would go overseas.
Why won't you fucking leave? you crowd around me. I can't fucking breathe. All those words you wrote on paper, it's time for me to set ablaze. Hang yourself. Just fucking die. The next time I see you around
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"If it's 'night night,' if it's the trash talking that he does, if it's with Jimmy Butler, if it's with Draymond Green -- this is the next iteration of Steph Curry that's trying to win a [championship] in the next two years.".
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... the fence with my suggestion that shit-talking can be productive ... Why act like it’s something we all don’t do? I was at dinner with one of my guy friends, and he was sitting there just trash-talking.
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