1974 J. Wideman in N.Y. Times 12 May 344/1 Their notions of..the central value of style in any activity, be it bad walking, trash talking or throwing a baseball, are formed.

1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Sept. b1 All week, Boz led the trash-talking on Norman, Okla. He and the Sooners were going to do this, and going to do that.

1999 R. Gephardt Even Better Place 212 The once-sedate Sunday-morning public affairs shows have turned into trash-talking matches, where ideologues from left and right take turns shouting at, interrupting, and insulting one another.

2000 Guardian 2 Nov. ii. 7/1 At no other time is the Englishness abandoned or evaded. When an opponent on the court deploys ‘trash-talking’ in an attempt to put him off, he replies: ‘You're boring me. You're only embarrassing yourself.’

1975 N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 399/5 The Dolls..played defiantly crude rock 'n' roll and postured as trash-talking punks while wearing high heels.

1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Jan. f4 Cut down on the fruit for the floats and the fluorescence for the lights, because all they have here in the Orange Bowl is grits-eating Arkansas and trash-talking Oklahoma.

2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 216 I loved those first interviews, laying eyes on..a motley crew of psychopathic grill men, alcoholic garde-mangermen, trash-talking chick sauciers.