garbage

alternative obsolete pronunciation spelling garbidge

1. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableFood waste material of any kind.

   Synonyms: gubbins, leftovers, orts, scraps

2. AustraliaCanadaCumbriaEnglandUSarchaicdialectaluncountableLancashireFoul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
3. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableUseless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

   The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

   Synonyms: junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste, cultch, crap, debris

4. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableSpecifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.

   Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.

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   Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.

   Antonyms: recyclable

5. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableA place or receptacle for waste material.

   He threw the newspaper into the garbage.

   Synonyms: bin, trash

6. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableNonsense; gibberish.

   This machine translation is garbage.

   Synonyms: double Dutch, flim-flam, mumbo jumbo, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce

7. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableSomething or someone worthless.

   The dissenting Christian Advocate asked (5 January 1835) how a cabinet composed of the very garbage of Toryism could be expected to share the spirit of Peel’s manifesto.

   1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 103

   Synonyms: cheapie, duff, dirtbag, cheapie, crapola, gash, hunk of junk, load of bull · Antonyms: asset, catch, find, prize, resource, treasure, valuable

8. AustraliaCanadaUSobsoleteuncountableThe bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
9. AustraliaCanadaUSattributiveslanguncountablehobbiesAn easy shot.

   […] the aging pro, in a much-heralded "boys against the girls" tennis match, annihilated Margaret Court with an array of "garbage shots and cotton balls."

   1981, Update 1981: The Great Contemporary Issues, New York Times Company, page 78

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   Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.

   1962, Coach & Athlete, page 18

10. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountablecomputingAllocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
11. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountablecomputingData that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.

present singular third person garbages · participle present garbaging · participle past garbaged · past garbaged · alternative obsolete pronunciation spelling garbidge

1. AustraliaCanadaUSobsoletetransitiveto eviscerate

   I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

   1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company)

   Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut

alternative obsolete pronunciation spelling garbidge

1. AustraliaCanadaUSinformalnot comparablebad, crap, shitty

   Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.

   2009, David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips, →ISBN, page 8

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   half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage

   2010, Nicholas Rombes, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982

   If you have been with a man for more than five years and both of you have not planned to marry one another, the relationship is completely garbage, and you can do but nothing with it more than having a sexual life with one another.

   2011, Ezekiel Dayo Adetunji, Power in the Spoken Word!, page 110

   The last time I had access to a therapist was 20 years ago, and that was a pretty garbage experience.

   2021, Giselle Renarde, Play It On My Radio: A Diary In Music, page 309