garbage
bad, crap, shitty
Adjective
- bad, crap, shitty
- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”. - 2009, David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips, →ISBN, page 8:
- half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage - 2010, Nicholas Rombes, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982:
- 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...
Origin
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
Forms
Noun
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
Synonyms: junk refuse rubbish trash waste cultch crap debris dreck drek garbage gash litter pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit pile of crap pile of shit piece of trash roughage service item shit stuff
- 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.
Antonyms: recyclable
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- This machine translation is garbage.
Synonyms: double Dutch flim-flam mumbo jumbo absurdity all my eye all my eye and Betty Martin applesauce bafflegab balderdash balls baloney banana oil Bandini baragouin batcrap batshit bilgewater blah blather blatherskite bobbins bollocks bosh BS
- 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. - 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church,...
Synonyms: cheapie duff dirtbag crapola garbage gash hunk of junk load of bull load of crap load of shit piece of crap piece of garbage piece of junk piece of shit piece of trash pile of crap pile of shit rubbish schlock slop tripe assbucket bugger dog egg
- 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. - 1962, Coach & Athlete, page...
- […] 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." - 1981, Update 1981: The Great Contemporary Issues, New York...
- Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
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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
Verb
- to eviscerate
- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence. - 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger...
Synonyms: disembowel eviscerate gut