garbage
Plural: garbages
Noun
- Waste material, especially discarded food or household refuse.
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- a worthless message
- a receptacle where waste can be discarded
- "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"
- Food waste material of any kind.
- foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Something or someone worthless.
- The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
- An easy shot.
- Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
Verb
- to eviscerate
Adj
- bad, crap, shitty
Examples
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
- His Words With Friends rack was full of GARBAGE, making a bingo impossible.
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- This machine translation is garbage.
Origin / 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”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
Synonyms
drivel, food waste, refuse, scraps, disembowel, eviscerate, gut, junk, rubbish, trash, waste
Scrabble Score: 11
garbage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgarbage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
garbage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary