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Tie in song trashing consumption (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ingestion

'consumption' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'tie in song trashing' is the wordplay.
'trashing' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'trash' mean this).
'tie'+'in'+'song'='tieinsong'
'tieinsong' with letters rearranged gives 'INGESTION'.

(Another definition for ingestion that I've seen is " Taking in".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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