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garbage

Definition

  • noun: things that are no longer useful or wanted and that have been thrown out
  • noun: food waste
  • often used to refer specifically to food waste that is being thrown out
  • synonyms: trash, clean, waste

Examples

  • Maybe you should read a book instead of watching that 'garbage' [='rubbish'] on TV.

  • If you ask me, what he said is a bunch/load of 'garbage'.

  • Raccoons were going through the 'garbage'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) chow tonight. Move your girlie butts! After you pack grits, report to Alpha barracks on the double. Get them dick-skinning hands out of my garbage cans. What the hell's goin' on? I told you, get your chow and report to Alpha barracks! If you feel you cannot carry on... If you now care to admit (..)
    1997 G.I. Jane