From late Middle English garbage, from Anglo-Norman -, from Old French garber, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan.

Akin to Old High German garawan, Old English ġearwian. More at garb, yare, gear

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɡɑːbɪd͡ʒ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɡɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/

garbage (uncountable) (chiefly, US, Canada, Australia)

1. Food waste material of any kind.
2. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

   The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

3. A place or receptacle for waste material.

   He threw the newspaper into the garbage.

4. Nonsense; gibberish.

   This machine translation is garbage

5. Something or someone worthless.
6. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
7. (sports, slang, North America, attributive) An easy shot.

• junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste
• See also Thesaurus:trash

• artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

• French: ordures, déchet, poubelle
• German: Abfall, Müll
• Italian: immondizia, spazzatura, rifiuti
• Portuguese: lixo
• Russian: му́сор
• Spanish: basura, desperdicios

garbage (garbages, present participle garbaging; simple past and past participle garbaged)

1. (transitive, chiefly, US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
   • 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):

     I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

   Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut

garbage (not comparable)

1. (informal) bad, crap, shitty
   • 2009, David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips‎^{[http://books.google.caː/books?id=zBHz64KQMdQC&dq=%22garbage+advice%22&q=garbage+advice#v=snippet&q=garbage%20advice&f=false]}, →ISBN, page 8:

     Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.