garbage
Etymology

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

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

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.
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Verb

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
Adjective

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”.



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