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Trashketball

noun
\ ˈtrash-kit-bawl \ /ˈtræʃ.kɪt.bɔːl//ˈtræʃ.kɪˌtɑːr//ˈtræʃ.kɪˌtɑːr.ɡɪt/
✓ Sendy original
noun 1 of 3 informal

Inflections plural trashketballs

1

A pastime resembling basketball but conducted with, or characterized by, refuse; the sport of shooting trash, rather than a regulation ball, toward a hoop or receptacle.

a

By extension, the organized professional form of this sport, governed by its own league (compare SendBA).

2026

“They're so good at trashketball they should go to the SendBA.”

— Professor Sendy

2026

“Mason, Grayson, and Layson are good at trashketball.”

— Professor Sendy

2

The implement or projectile used in this sport; a wad of trash treated as a ball.

noun 2 of 3 agentive; chiefly in 'the real trashketar'

Inflections trashketar; plural trashketars

1

A star player of trashketball; one celebrated for prowess at the sport.

2026

“But we all know that Skyler, Fyler, and Jetyler are the real trashketars.”

— Professor Sendy

noun 3 of 3 informal

Inflections trashketarget; plural trashketargets

1

A trashketball regarded specifically as a thing to be aimed at; the target of a trashketball throw, as distinct from the projectile itself.

2026

“It's not a trashketball, it's a trashketarget.”

— Professor Sendy

Synonyms

SendBA (as the governing league)

Word Family

Wombos built from the same root — derivatives, escalations, and kin of Trashketball.

Word History

The Combo

trash basketball Trashketball

lend of trash + basketball, the medial syllable of basketball being elided so that the two roots interlock at the shared -sk- juncture. Coined by Professor Sendy (2026). The agentive trashketar derives by analogy with such forms as superstar and rockstar (trash + basketball + star), and the further extension trashketarget by attraction of the noun target onto the agentive stem.

First Known Use 2026

Coinage credited to Professor Sendy.

Attested in the source utterance, @ProfessorSendy ↗

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