trimming
anything used or serving to decorate or complete: the trimmings of a Christmas tree.
Usually trimmings . an accompaniment or garnish to a main dish: roast turkey with all the trimmings.
trimmings, pieces cut off in trimming, clipping, paring, or pruning.
the act of a person or thing that trims.
Informal. a beating or thrashing.
Informal. a defeat: Our team took quite a trimming.
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How to use trimming in a sentence
Which it is, despite some trimming of the drinks and wine lists and a format switch.
Owner Louis Lassen improvised by giving him a patty of the restaurant’s steak trimmings between two pieces of toast.
Who invented the hamburger? Biting into the messy history of America’s iconic sandwich. | Erik Ofgang | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostI haven’t been so successful, aside from saving some onion and garlic skins and veg trimmings in my freezer for periodic brothmaking.
Cut waste and boost flavor with skin-to-seed recipes that use the whole vegetable | Joe Yonan | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostCeramic blades tend to stay cooler throughout the trimming process.
The best beard trimmer: Shape your facial hair with ease | Carsen Joenk | January 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceNaturally, I have to impress him with my culinary talents, so I cross my fingers and cook a turkey-for-two and some of the trimmings to share in my 9×9 dining room.
British Dictionary definitions for trimming
/ (ˈtrɪmɪŋ) /
an extra piece used to decorate or complete
(plural) usual or traditional accompaniments: roast turkey with all the trimmings
(plural) parts that are cut off
(plural) dialect ornaments; decorations: Christmas trimmings
informal a reproof, beating, or defeat
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