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garbage
[ gahr-bij ]
noun
- discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.
- a bin or other receptacle for discarded matter, especially kitchen waste; garbage can:
Hey, who threw my leftover pizza in the garbage?
Synonyms: taradiddle, malarkey, hogwash, claptrap, bunkum, nonsense, waste, trash, rubbish, junk, refuse, litter
- anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile:
There's nothing but garbage on TV tonight.
- worthless talk; lies; foolishness.
- Informal. any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish:
I'll have an Old Fashioned, but without the garbage.
- useless artificial satellites or parts of rockets floating in space, as satellites that are no longer transmitting information or rocket boosters jettisoned in flight.
- Computers. meaningless or unwanted data:
That program was not properly debugged and produced nothing but garbage.
garbage
/ ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ /
noun
- worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
- Also calledrubbish discarded or waste matter; refuse
- computing invalid data
- informal.nonsense
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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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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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