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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

  • (..) Huh. Roger? What do you see down there? Just, uh, hard to tell, you know? It's an old piano and a whole bunch of garbage. Agh. Son of a... Wow. Rog? Come on up. I don't want you girls going down there. (..)
    2013 The Conjuring