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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

  • (..) Yeah, can't you just see me? I'm rushing home to a hot apartment... to listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher... and the garbage disposal and the nagging wife. Jeff, wives don't nag anymore, they discuss. Is that so? Is that so? Maybe in the high-rent (..)
    1954 Rear Window