garbage

  • 11garbage — early 15c., giblets of a fowl, waste parts of an animal, later confused with GARBLE (Cf. garble) in its sense of siftings, refuse. Perhaps some senses derive from O.Fr. garbe a bundle of sheaves, entrails, from P.Gmc. *garba (Cf. Du. garf, Ger.… …

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  • 12garbage — n *refuse, waste, offal, rubbish, trash, debris …

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  • 13garbage — [n] refuse, litter bits and pieces*, debris, detritus, dreck, dregs, dross, filth, junk, muck, odds and ends*, offal, rubbish, rubble, scrap, scrapings, sewage, slop*, sweepings, swill, trash, waste; concept 260 …

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  • 14garbage — ► NOUN chiefly N. Amer. 1) domestic rubbish or waste. 2) something worthless or meaningless. ORIGIN originally in the sense «offal»: from Old French …

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  • 15garbage — noun ⇨ See also ↑rubbish, ↑trash 1 (esp. AmE) waste material ADJECTIVE ▪ household, kitchen (AmE) ▪ rotting … OF GARBAGE ▪ bag …

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  • 16garbage — [[t]gɑ͟ː(r)bɪʤ[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Garbage is rubbish, especially waste from a kitchen. [mainly AM] This morning a bomb in a garbage bag exploded and injured 15 people. ...rotting piles of garbage. Syn: rubbish 2) N UNCOUNT (disapproval) If someone …

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  • 17garbage — 1. n. nonsense; gibberish. □ He’s just talking garbage. D I’ve heard too much garbage here today. 2. n. jumbled computer code. □ All I get is garbage on the screen. □ If you put garbage into the computer, you’ll get garbage out …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 18garbage — /gahr bij/, n. 1. discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse. 2. any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash. 3. anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile: There s nothing but garbage on TV tonight …

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  • 19garbage — n. (esp. AE) 1) to collect, pick up the garbage 2) to dispose of; dump garbage * * * [ gɑːbɪdʒ] dump garbage pick up the garbage (esp. AE) to collect to dispose of …

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  • 20garbage — gar|bage S3 [ˈga:bıdʒ US ˈga:r ] n [U] [Date: 1400 1500; : Anglo Frenc] 1.) especially AmE waste material, such as paper, empty containers, and food thrown away British Equivalent: rubbish ▪ Can you take out the garbage when you go? 2.) stupid… …

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