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garbage
[ gahr-bij ]
noun
- discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.
- a bin or other receptacle for discarded matter, especially kitchen waste; garbage can:
Hey, who threw my leftover pizza in the garbage?
Synonyms: taradiddle, malarkey, hogwash, claptrap, bunkum, nonsense, waste, trash, rubbish, junk, refuse, litter
- anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile:
There's nothing but garbage on TV tonight.
- worthless talk; lies; foolishness.
- Informal. any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish:
I'll have an Old Fashioned, but without the garbage.
- useless artificial satellites or parts of rockets floating in space, as satellites that are no longer transmitting information or rocket boosters jettisoned in flight.
- Computers. meaningless or unwanted data:
That program was not properly debugged and produced nothing but garbage.
garbage
/ ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ /
noun
- worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
- Also calledrubbish discarded or waste matter; refuse
- computing invalid data
- informal.nonsense
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Example Sentences
“Angry Birds is a small fun game plus a lot of pointless garbage,” Smith tells me.
“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.
Brabner talked about the “MTV people” coming to Cleveland to get pictures of Pekar emptying the garbage and going bowling.
The kid moved again, slowly across the parking lot to the garbage bin.
Then he took the chicken and walked over to his spot near the garbage and sat down to eat it.
Above all, the doctor—the doctor and the purulent trash and garbage of his pharmacopoeia!
Foiled in this attempt they began to pelt them with garbage, so that soon their white robes were stained and filthy.
He would give me such words as "combustion," "garbage disposal," "bonded indebtedness" and so on.
The pigsties have no more smell than the stables, because the manure is removed, and no garbage is allowed to accumulate.
He had a couple of dingy wash-boilers which he had picked up from the big garbage-dump near the race-track.
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