garbage

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UK /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/ US /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/

noun 5verb 1adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, black, charged, foul, free, industrial, large, outside

The city finally removed all the garbage that had been piling up on the street corner.

VERB + GARBAGE

collect, forget, getting, help, pride, put, rid, use

My dad always forgets to put the garbage out on collection day.

GARBAGE + NOUN

advice, area, bag, collector, compactor, day, disposal, harbors

I forgot to put out the garbage bag before the truck came by this morning.

PREP.

about, in, off, out, up

She took out the garbage before the trash truck arrived this morning.

ADV.

away, away, peacefully, totally

I threw the garbage away after dinner last night.

Definitions

noun

Food waste material of any kind.

foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.

Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.

Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.

Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.

A place or receptacle for waste material.

He threw the newspaper into the garbage.

verb

to eviscerate

I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

adj

bad, crap, shitty

Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.

half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a worthless message

drivel

noun — food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

refuse
scraps

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

garbage in, garbage out

If input data are not complete, accurate, and timely, then the resulting output is unreliable and useless. If the input is junk, then the output is junk.

Officials explained that the quality of the computer's work depends on the quality of the data fed into it. Neil Hoke, administrative assistant to Stewart, quoted an adage of compu

hot garbage

Nuclear waste.

The water is first filtered and processed to eliminate as much as possible substances that might become radioactive. After going through the reactor, it is held in basins until the

Example Bank

The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

Wiktionary

Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.

Wiktionary

Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.

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I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

Wiktionary

Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.

Wiktionary

half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, garbage is marked as archaic, obsolete, informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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