garbage
//ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ//
Definitions
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.Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin, that one's for garbage.
- Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.
4.A place or receptacle for waste material.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
1.bad, crap, shitty(informal)
- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
- The last time I had access to a therapist was 20 years ago, and that was a pretty garbage experience.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3904
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).