Pronunciations (5)
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/ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/
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- Canada
- General-American
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/ˈɡaː.bɪd͡ʒ/
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- Australia
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ˈɡɑɹbɪd͡ʒ
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- US
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ˈɡɑːbɪd͡ʒ
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- GB
Noun
Food waste material of any kind.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
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- Uncountable
Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
- Cumbria
- England
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- Archaic
- dialectal
- Uncountable
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
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- Uncountable
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The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
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- Uncountable
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Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.
Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.
A place or receptacle for waste material.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
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- Uncountable
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He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
Nonsense; gibberish.
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- Uncountable
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This machine translation is garbage.
Something or someone worthless.
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The dissenting Christian Advocate asked (5 January 1835) how a cabinet composed of the very garbage of Toryism could be expected to share the spirit of Peel’s manifesto.
The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
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- Canada
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- Obsolete
- Uncountable
An easy shot.
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- attributive
- Slang
- Uncountable
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Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.
[…] the aging pro, in a much-heralded "boys against the girls" tennis match, annihilated Margaret Court with an array of "garbage shots and cotton balls."
Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
Usage- Australia
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- Uncountable
Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
Usage- Australia
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- Uncountable
Verb
to eviscerate
Usage- Australia
- Canada
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- Obsolete
- Transitive
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I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
Adjective
bad, crap, shitty
Usage- Australia
- Canada
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- Informal
- not-comparable
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Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage
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If you have been with a man for more than five years and both of you have not planned to marry one another, the relationship is completely garbage, and you can do but nothing with it more than having a sexual life with one another.
The last time I had access to a therapist was 20 years ago, and that was a pretty garbage experience.
Noun
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
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a worthless message
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a receptacle where waste can be discarded
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she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage