garbage
nounEtymology
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”). Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
- inherited from garbage — “the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”
Definitions
Food waste material of any kind.
Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
Useless or disposable material
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
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Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting,…
Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- 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.
- Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.
A place or receptacle for waste material.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
Nonsense
Nonsense; gibberish.
- This machine translation is garbage.
Something or someone worthless.
- The dissenting Christian Advocate asked (5 January 1835) how a cabinet composed of the very garbage of Toryism could be expected to share the spirit of Peel’s manifesto.
The bowels of an animal
The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
An easy shot.
- Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.
- […] the aging pro, in a much-heralded "boys against the girls" tennis match, annihilated Margaret Court with an array of "garbage shots and cotton balls."
Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
to eviscerate
- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
bad, crap, shitty
- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
- half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage
- If you have been with a man for more than five years and both of you have not planned to marry one another, the relationship is completely garbage, and you can do but nothing with it more than having a sexual life with one another.
The neighborhood
- neighborhot garbage
Derived
carbage, garbage bag, garbage bandit, garbage bin, garbage can, garbage chute, garbage collect, garbage collected, garbage collection, garbage collector, garbage-collector, garbage day, garbage disposal, garbage disposal unit, garbage dump, garbage fire, garbage fly, garbage gleaning, Garbage Grove, garbage heap of history, garbage in, garbage out, garbage lady, garbageless, garbagelike, garbageman, garbage man, garbage mitt, garbageness, garbage pail, garbage panda, garbage patch, garbageperson, garbage picking, garbage plate, garbager, garbagescape, garbage scow, garbage time, garbage truck, garbageware · +10 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at garbage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at garbage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at garbage
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA