trash-talk

trash-talk
trash-talk (trăshʹtôk') intr.v. trash-·talked, trash-·talk·ing, trash-·talks
To speak disparagingly, often insultingly or abusively about a person or group.
  [African American Vernacular English.]   trashʹ-talk'er n.

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