GARBAGE Definition & Meaning

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garbage

[gahr-bij]

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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.
a bin or other receptacle for discarded matter, especially kitchen waste; garbage can.
Hey, who threw my leftover pizza in the garbage?
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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

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noun

worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
Also called: rubbish.��discarded or waste matter; refuse
computing invalid data
informal��nonsense

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51�Թ� 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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51�Թ� History and Origins

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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“I love him dearly. There’s no doubt about it. He’s coherent. He is much calmer than he has been in a long, long time because there is no garbage in his system.”

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While most demonstrators have gathered peacefully, some have hurled objects at law enforcement personnel, set garbage and vehicles on fire and defaced federal property with graffiti.

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"It's plain from looking at the letters that whoever made the die wasn't literate, the letters don't bear much resemblance to Latin - they're garbage really," he explained.

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"She was bleeding heavily, and we couldn't even find a vehicle to take her to the hospital. We finally managed to transport her in a garbage truck," Mohamed explains.

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Fisher said some of Miller’s neighbors complained that she was part of the lure, because she was not disposing of her garbage properly.

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garb garbage can

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