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Garbage Throw Noun Bre ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ Collection Forget

Word garbage
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ / NAmE / ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ /
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  • garbage collection
  • don't forget to take out the garbage.
  • throw it in the garbage.
  • ‘you mean you believe all that garbage?’ he said.
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garbage

(noun)BrE / ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ / NAmE / ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ /
  1. waste food, paper, etc. that you throw away
    • garbage collection
    • Don't forget to take out the garbage.
  2. a place or container where waste food, paper, etc. can be placed
    • Throw it in the garbage.
  3. something stupid or not true
    • synonym rubbish
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/rubbish_1
    • ‘You mean you believe all that garbage?’ he said.
  4. used to express the idea that if wrong or poor quality data is put into a computer, wrong or poor quality data will come out of it
  5. Extra Examples

    • During the crisis, garbage was not collected.
    • His ideas were discarded like worthless garbage.
    • I put the broken glass in the garbage can.
    • It’s mostly the same old garbage.
    • Someone just dumped their garbage into my backyard.
    • The second series was a piece of garbage.
    • There was garbage strewn around everywhere.
    • This movie is pure garbage.
    • We picked up all the garbage we could find.
    • Don’t believe all that garbage the government tells you.
    • She just watches garbage on TV all day.
    • That’s complete garbage!
    • The canal is full of garbage and bits of wood.
    • The garbage cans had just been emptied.
    • There was a lot of garbage reported about me in the newspapers.
    • You could see the rats moving about on the garbage dump.

    Word Origin

    • late Middle English (in the sense ‘offal’): from Anglo-Norman French, of unknown ultimate origin.
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