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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

  • (..) Not according to the men in blue. Is it kiddie porn again? Sexual battery of a patient? - They wanna discredit you. Why? - Because I know too much about the truth. That end-of-the-world garbage you write? You know my work? - I was right about Dallas. - How? Do you know of the Hanta virus? (..)
    1998 The X Files