Sekirov Dictionary

garbage

UK /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/US /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/

noun 11
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun11

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(US, Australia) waste and other useless things that people throw away
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
(US, Australia) Food waste material of any kind.
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(US, Australia) Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- 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.
- Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.
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(US, Australia) A place or receptacle for waste material.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
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(US, Australia) Nonsense; gibberish.
- This machine translation is garbage.
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(US, Australia) Something 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
Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
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[before a noun] (US, slang) An easy shot.
- 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
(dialect, no longer used) Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
(no longer used) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

adjective1

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(informal) bad, crap, shitty
- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”. — 2009

verb1

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(US, no longer used) to eviscerate
- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence. — 1674

forms

garbaged · garbaging · garbages

Phrases with garbage

hot garbage
Anything that is extremely bad, low-quality, or worthless.

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