Not an eggcorn--just a mistake?

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Perhaps influenced by "thrash metal", a sub-genre of heavy metal music?

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> From:    Charles Doyle
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> > Last night on MTV's "Room Raiders" (I know, I need to get a
> life!), a
> > participant entered an extremely messy room, which he twice
> referred
> > to as having been "thrashed."  I assume he meant "trashed," but he
> > (unconsciously) introducted a more particular image of how the room
> > got that way.
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> Quite possibly not even a mistake. I use "thrashed" in this
> sense quite freely, myself--"trashed" is similar, but
> different in terms of how it *feels*. "Trashed" means things
> are ripped apart, "thrashed" means things look randomly
> strewn about, as if a tornado has come through.
>
> A distinction without a difference, arguably, but there you are.
>
> Interestingly, Urban Dictionary doesn't have this sense of
> "thrash*", even though i'm not alone in using it--at the very
> least, my sisters and my wife definitely use it freely (along
> with, and contrasting with, "trash*"), and i'm pretty certain
> lots of other of my friends do.
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