Definitions for garbage

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garbage gar·bage

Spelling: [gahr-bij]

IPA: /ˈgɑr bɪdʒ/

Garbage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in garbage (aabeggr).

Definitions for garbage

noun

1. discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
2. any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.
3. anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile:
4. worthless talk; lies; foolishness.
5. Slang. any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish:
6. useless artificial satellites or parts of rockets floating in space, as satellites that are no longer transmitting information or rocket boosters jettisoned in flight.
7. Computers. meaningless or unwanted data:

Origin of garbage

1400-50; late Middle English: discarded parts of butchered fowls; compared with garbelage the removal of waste from spices (Anglo-French, Old French; see garble,

Examples for garbage

The kid moved again, slowly across the parking lot to the garbage bin.

“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.

Then he took the chicken and walked over to his spot near the garbage and sat down to eat it.

A mound of garbage crowned with the dead body of a dog arrested us not.

"Cleansing fires for that sort of garbage," he said finally.

We then specified places at which garbage, etc., should be dumped.

He drained the bottle; then hurled it into the garbage pail with a resounding crash.

Brabner talked about the “MTV people” coming to Cleveland to get pictures of Pekar emptying the garbage and going bowling.

Describe the method used in his community in disposing of garbage.

He held the garbage close to his face, then put it back in the bin.