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hot garbage

noun

Etymology

From hot (“radioactive”) + garbage (“waste”). Originally a term for radioactive materials, it evolved as a descriptor for anything highly undesirable.

  1. derived from *garwijan✻ — “to make ready”
  2. derived from garber — “to refine, make neat or clean”
  3. inherited from garbage — “the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”
  4. formed as hot garbage — “hot + garbage”

Definitions

  1. Nuclear waste.

  2. Anything that is extremely bad, low-quality, or worthless.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hot garbage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA