garbage

noun ⇨ See also ↑rubbish, ↑trash

1 (esp. AmE) waste material

ADJECTIVE

▪ household, kitchen (AmE)

▪ rotting

… OF GARBAGE

▪ bag, pile

▪ tons

VERB + GARBAGE

▪ take out (AmE)

▪

Don't forget to take out the garbage.

▪ collect, remove

▪

During the crisis, garbage was not collected.

▪ dispose of, dump, throw, throw away, throw out

▪

Someone just dumped their garbage into my backyard.

▪ leave

▪ strew, strew around (both usually passive)

▪

There was garbage strewn around everywhere.

▪ pick up

▪

We picked up all the garbage we could find.

GARBAGE + NOUN

▪ bag, can

▪

I put the broken glass in the garbage can.

▪ truck

▪ dump, heap

▪ collection, disposal

▪ chute

PHRASES

▪ throw sth in the garbage

2 (informal) sth that is stupid or not true

ADJECTIVE

▪ absolute, complete, pure, utter

▪

This movie is pure garbage.

▪ worthless

▪

His ideas were discarded like worthless garbage.

▪ old

▪

It's mostly the same old garbage.

PHRASES

▪ garbage in, garbage out

▪ a piece of garbage, a pile of garbage

▪

The second series was a piece of garbage.