EGAVE

garbage

About 4.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Food waste material of any kind.
  2. noun Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
  3. noun Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
    The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun A place or receptacle for waste material.
    He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
  6. noun Nonsense; gibberish.
    This machine translation is garbage.
  7. noun Something or someone worthless.
  8. noun The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

Similar words

refuse food waste scraps littering junkyard dump debris landfill dustbin wastebasket

Often followed by

collection can and cans in disposal collector out dump

Word family

garbages

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