Meanings
plural garburators · alternative garbarator · alternative garberator · alternative Garberator
- CanadaUKSynonym of garbage disposal.
‘[…] She burped and tried to jam the bottle into the waste-hole of the waste-disposal thing, the thingummy.’ ‘Garburator,’ said Pigs Trotter. ‘I think they’re called Garburators.’ ‘Garburator, that’s it. She tried to jam the bottle down the Garburator.[…]’
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28Synonyms: garbage disposal
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of garbage disposal.
Origin
Blend of garbage + incinerator. First attested in c. 1947 in the Winnipeg Tribune.
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