trash vt.
To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure). The
most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and
scribble.
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trawl v.
To sift through large volumes of data (e.g., Usenet postings,
FTP archives, or the Jargon File) looking for something of
interest.
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tree-killer n.
[Sun] 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper. This epithet
should be interpreted in a broad sense; `wasting paper' includes
the production of spiffy but content-free documents. Thus, most
suits are tree-killers. The negative
loading of this term may reflect the epithet `tree-killer'
applied by Treebeard the Ent to the Orcs in J.R.R. Tolkien's
"Lord of the Rings" (see also elvish, elder
days).