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garbage

[gahr-bij]

noun

  1. discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.

  2. any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.

  3. a bin or other receptacle for discarded matter, especially kitchen waste; garbage can.

    Hey, who threw my leftover pizza in the garbage?

  4. anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile.

    There's nothing but garbage on TV tonight.

  5. worthless talk; lies; foolishness.

  6. Informal.,  any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish.

    I'll have an Old Fashioned, but without the garbage.

  7. useless artificial satellites or parts of rockets floating in space, as satellites that are no longer transmitting information or rocket boosters jettisoned in flight.

  8. Computers.,  meaningless or unwanted data.

    That program was not properly debugged and produced nothing but garbage.



garbage

/ ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ /

noun

  1. worthless, useless, or unwanted matter

  2. Also called: rubbishdiscarded or waste matter; refuse

  3. computing invalid data

  4. informal,  nonsense

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of garbage1

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English garbage, gabage “discarded parts of butchered fowls; entrails of fowls used for human food”; compare with Middle English garbelage “removal of refuse from spices,” Middle English garbelure “refuse found in spices,” and Old French garbage (also jarbage ) “tax on sheaves of grain,” but the shift of sense here is unclear; further origin uncertain; garble, -age
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Word History and Origins

Origin of garbage1

C15: probably from Anglo-French garbelage removal of discarded matter, of uncertain origin; compare Old Italian garbuglio confusion
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Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"They put a lot of pressure on themselves and as much as Scheffler says he doesn't think about it, I think that's garbage and he thinks about all of it," added Miceli.

From BBC

“This kind of garbage has led to a more than 1000% increase in the assaults on enforcement officers,” the agency said.

“This type of garbage about ICE and Border Patrol agents engaging in an ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and racial profiling vilifies our law enforcement.

"They throw their garbage at our doorstep. I call the authorities and they say, "We'll send the army". But the army never comes. The settlers are the army, they are the police, they are everything."

From BBC

Thus, Nexstar was the first to answer Carr’s call “to step up and say, ‘You know, this garbage . . . isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities.”

From Salon

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