garbage

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈɡɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈɡɑːbɪd͡ʒ/
• (America, humorous, imitating the French pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɑ(ɹ)ˈbɑːʒ/

Noun

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

1. Food waste material of any kind.

   Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays

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.
5. (often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
6. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Translations

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

Verb

garbage (garbages, present participle garbaging; 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

   He gave me some pretty garbage advice last night.

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