Definition of GARBAGE

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

Scrabble Score: 11

garbage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
garbage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
garbage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

garbage: valid Words With Friends Word