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garbage

[ gahr-bij ]

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noun

discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.
a bin or other receptacle for discarded matter, especially kitchen waste; garbage can:
Hey, who threw my leftover pizza in the garbage?
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anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile:
There's nothing but garbage on TV tonight.
worthless talk; lies; foolishness.
Informal. any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish:
I'll have an Old Fashioned, but without the garbage.
useless artificial satellites or parts of rockets floating in space, as satellites that are no longer transmitting information or rocket boosters jettisoned in flight.
Computers. meaningless or unwanted data:
That program was not properly debugged and produced nothing but garbage.

garbage

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noun

worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
Also calledrubbish discarded or waste matter; refuse
computing invalid data
informal.
nonsense

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Word History and Origins

Origin of garbage¹

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English garbage, gabage “discarded parts of butchered fowls; entrails of fowls used for human food”; compare with Middle English garbelage “removal of refuse from spices,” Middle English garbelure “refuse found in spices,” and Old French garbage (also jarbage ) “tax on sheaves of grain,” but the shift of sense here is unclear; further origin uncertain; garble, -age

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Word History and Origins

Origin of garbage¹

C15: probably from Anglo-French garbelage removal of discarded matter, of uncertain origin; compare Old Italian garbuglio confusion

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Instead, pull up the plants at the end of the season and put them in the garbage.

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"Deliver the message," another crowd chants, as it surges through Gaza's devastated streets: "Hamas is garbage."

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Musk famously treats everyone like garbage, comparing other people to the non-player characters in video games.

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“From the bottom of my heart, I apologize to absolutely everyone that this hurts. �� came out of my mouth was nonsensical garbage — I’ve let the Jewish community down and it devastates me,” he added.

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“The Art of Personal Chaos” is Gaga’s answer to the loud, vicious barrage of garbage we’ve been flooded with.

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garb garbage can

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