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noun

discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.

any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.

anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile: There's nothing but garbage on TV tonight.

worthless talk; lies; foolishness.

Slang. any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish: I'll have an Old Fashioned, but without the garbage.

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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.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English: discarded parts of butchered fowls; compared with garbelage the removal of waste from spices (< Anglo-French, Old French; see garble, -age) or Old French garbage tax on sheaves of grain, though shift of sense, and form in first case, is unclear

Synonyms
2. litter, refuse, junk, rubbish.

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Similarly, trading your office garbage can for a daintier disposal bin may remind you to send less trash to the landfill.

Shortly after that, tear it up and through it in the garbage.

Garbage in, garbage out: dustmen make the best forecasts.

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Similarly, trading your office garbage can for a daintier disposal bin may remind you to send less trash to the landfill.

Shortly after that, tear it up and through it in the garbage.

Garbage in, garbage out: dustmen make the best forecasts.

Industries and homes generate garbage and sewage that can pollute the land and water.

Last year, they also went to art exhibits in both cities, where live maps revealed the many paths garbage takes.

During one of my visits there was a great and stinky garbage strike.

Prune dried bloom stalks from penstemon plants, then shake them upside down inside a plastic garbage bag or over a tarp.

Intelligent trash-sorting machines and single-stream recycling may spell the end of the good old garbage man.

Civic leaders need to wake up to how the city's future economic well-being is challenged by our garbage crisis.

They are garbage as far as teaching anything or having any academic standards, and never want to fail anyone.

No doubt, some people who now dutifully sort their garbage would give up.

Recycling as much of your household garbage as possible can significantly reduce your contribution to landfills.

Images of the world's garbage and pollution problems.

Remember to carry a plastic garbage bag for disposal of wet negatives.

Destroy slugs and snails or put them in a bag and toss them in the garbage.

The ultimate garbage bag may be a plastic tote made from trash.

Missorting was easy to spot, given the required use of clear garbage bags with identification numbers.

Enough of this garbage that caters to every special interest group out there.

There are specific garbage trucks that may come around on specific days and times for recyclable waste.

Several local governments have a special hazardous materials garbage pickup.

How offshore garbage dumping contributes to ocean dead zones.

Who created a lot of garbage by poor secretaries told to learn how to make so many things that they never wanted to do before.

Now enclose the cookie sheet in a large, dark garbage bag and tie the end.

The narrow streets wouldn't be fit for traffic, or for garbage collection, so a pneumatic trash system became part of the plans.

It could soon find itself strangling on its own garbage.

Or rather, it would flow out to the sea if it were not completely choked with plastic bottles and garbage.

They will even open garbage cans to dine on the contents.

Waste and garbage are truly sustainable sources of energy because as long as there are people, ther will always be garbage.

Placing the new grafts inside a plastic garbage bag with the inside spritzed with water works nicely for this purpose.

Just because it holds trash doesn't mean your can should be a piece of garbage.

The result was a flood of garbage that could not be stemmed.

To get started with backyard composting, all you need is garbage.

Most people don't understand how many useful resources are thrown in the garbage every day.

Appologists should stop to feed us with their garbage.

If living among humans, foxes will opportunistically dine on garbage and pet food.

The streets cracked and filled up with debris and garbage.

Their combination will ensure their garbage trucks take more efficient routes.

Composting keeps organic kitchen scraps out of the trash and the landfill, turning garbage into useful soil enrichment instead.

It's also a good idea to tuck a few garbage bags into your backpack.

The channel is clogged deep with plastic bottles, garbage and human faeces.

Garbage trucks are about to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

The family sized box of facial tissue and a garbage can.

Use rolling garbage cans to hold potting soil or fertilizers in the open side of the under-counter storage.

Every household produces personal waste every day that adds up to a staggering amount of garbage each year.

High-temperature technology vaporizes troublesome garbage into synthetic.

Minibus-sized garbage mounds were parked on the curb every couple of blocks.

Even in the neighborhood where people pick up litter every day, they still have to pay someone to haul off the garbage.

With expansion comes people's garbage and pets-lures for bears and mountain lions.

Snails and tadpoles are nature's garbage disposals, feeding.

And, the worse of all, my sanitary engineer can only empty garbage baskets and clean bathrooms.

Yard waste is turned into dirt to cover garbage in a landfill.

Start composting food waste instead of using the garbage disposal.

Nuclear waste is either a millennia's worth of lethal garbage or the fuel of future nuclear reactors--or both.

During ebb, it gets stuck up because of any sort of garbage that might come floating in with high tide.

Instead of the usual burrow solution--a garbage can cut in half covered with dirt--Perry created this elegant stone cave.

But for the time being, we're lowering our total amount of garbage and the kids had a great time making the compost bin.

Vultures play an essential ecological role as garbage collectors and recyclers.

Then, when held over the trashcan, you cut the power and the dust should drop into the garbage.

Water shortages, poor hygiene, and piles of garbage are boosting the dangers of cholera and dysentery.

The bodies are unceremoniously stuffed into garbage bags, rolled inside carpets or tied to tree trunks.

In order to survive, these social creatures form packs, scavenging garbage or killing livestock in teams.

It turns dirt yards into mud and forms reefs of garbage in the streets.

Use grocery sacks to line garbage cans to reduce the need for trash.

But one popular place to store your notes and bookmarks is headed to the garbage bin of the web.

Ships spill oil and garbage and transport critters to alien habitats unprepared for their arrival.

The targeted offenses: if you are stolen, call the police at once please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can.

It's totally safe for the environment and leaves no garbage.

As the town expands, garbage and pets are expected to lure predators in even greater numbers.

The garbage chute was sealed, replaced by a trash bin.

The birds are singing, and a garbage truck rattles and roars on the next block over.

Unlike other sci-fi vehicles, the jetpack doesn't require plutonium or even garbage for power.

Depleted uranium is the garbage left from producing enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and energy plants.

He had gone there to lend support to striking city garbage workers.

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World English Dictionary

garbage (ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ)

—n
1.	worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
2.	Also called: rubbish discarded or waste matter; refuse
3.	computing invalid data
4.	informal nonsense

[C15: probably from Anglo-French garbelage removal of discarded matter, of uncertain origin; compare Old Italian garbuglio confusion]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History

garbage

1422, originally "giblets of a fowl, waste parts of an animal," later confused with garble in its sense of "siftings, refuse." Many M.E. cookery terms came from Anglo-Fr., so perhaps it is related to O.Fr. jarbage "a bundle of sheaves, entrails," from P.Gmc. *garba-, from PIE *ghrebh- "a handful, a grasp."

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Sense of "refuse" is first attested 1583. Garbology "study of waste as a social science" is from 1976.

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Slang Dictionary

garbage definition

n.
nonsense; gibberish. : He's just talking garbage.
n.
jumbled computer code. : All I get is garbage on the screen.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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