Garbage is rubbish, especially waste from a kitchen.
[mainly US]
...a garbage bag.
...rotting piles of garbage.
Synonyms: junk, rubbish, litter, trash [mainly US, Canadian] More Synonyms of garbage
2. uncountable noun
If someone says that an idea or opinion is garbage, they are emphasizing that they believe it is untrue or unimportant.
[informal, disapproval]
I personally think this is complete garbage.
Furious government officials branded her story 'garbage'.
Synonyms: nonsense, bull [slang], rot, crap [slang] More Synonyms of garbage
usage note: In American English, the words garbage and trash are most commonly used to refer to waste material that is thrown away. ...the smell of rotting garbage... She threw the bottle into the trash. In British English, rubbish is the usual word. Garbage and trash are sometimes used in British English, but only informally and metaphorically. I don't have to listen to this garbage... The book was trash.
garbage in British English
(ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ)
noun
1.
worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
2. Also called: rubbish
discarded or waste matter; refuse
3. computing
invalid data
4. informal
nonsense
Word origin
C15: probably from Anglo-French garbelage removal of discarded matter, of uncertain origin; compare Old Italian garbuglio confusion
garbage in American English
(ˈgɑrbɪdʒ)
noun
1.
spoiled or waste food that is thrown away
2.
any worthless, unnecessary, or offensive matter
literary garbage
Derived forms
garbagey (ˈgarbagey)
adjective or ˈgarbagy
Word origin
ME, entrails of fowls < ?
More idioms containing
garbage
garbage in, garbage out
Examples of 'garbage' in a sentence
garbage
My clothes were in a garbage bag in the bathroom.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Would you rather be called a garbage man or a sanitation engineer?
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
And who is to blame for the penny-pinching cut in garbage collections?
The Sun (2008)
Those books were down in the literary cellar - next to the garbage cans.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I thought it was a bag of garbage at first.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
A dense garbage of cans and plastic bags float past.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The reports are complete garbage.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
garbage
British English: garbage /ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ/ NOUN
Garbage is rubbish, especially waste from a kitchen.
...the collection of garbage.
American English: garbage
Arabic: نُفَايَة
Brazilian Portuguese: lixo
Chinese: 垃圾
Croatian: otpad
Czech: odpadky
Danish: skrald
Dutch: afval
European Spanish: basura
Finnish: roskat
French: déchets
German: Abfall
Greek: σκουπίδια
Italian: immondizia
Japanese: ごみ
Korean: 쓰레기
Norwegian: søppel
Polish: śmieci
European Portuguese: lixo
Romanian: gunoi
Russian: мусор
Latin American Spanish: basura
Swedish: sopor
Thai: ขยะ
Turkish: çöp
Ukrainian: сміття
Vietnamese: rác thải
All related terms of 'garbage'
garbage can
A garbage can is a container that you put rubbish into.
garbage man
A garbage man is the same as a → garbage collector .
garbage chute
a passage, esp common in high-rise apartment buildings, through which refuse is carried by means of gravity to a large waste receptacle at the bottom end
garbage dump
A garbage dump is a place where waste material is left.
garbage shute
a passage, esp common in high-rise apartment buildings, through which refuse is carried by means of gravity to a large waste receptacle at the bottom end
garbage time
an inconsequential period of play at the end of a sporting contest whose result is no longer in doubt
garbage truck
A garbage truck is a large truck which collects the garbage from outside people's houses .
garbage collection
a systems routine for eliminating invalid or out-of-date data and releasing storage locations
garbage collector
A garbage collector is a person whose job is to take people's garbage away .
garbage disposal
A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
garbage in, garbage out
said to mean that if you produce something using poor quality materials, the thing you produce will also be of poor quality
garbage disposal unit
the disposal of domestic waste matter
refuse truck
a road vehicle for collecting domestic refuse
ash bin
a dustbin
ashcan
a large can for ashes and trash
dustbin
A dustbin is a large container with a lid which people put their rubbish in and which is usually kept outside their house.
trashcan
a large, usually cylindrical container for rubbish , esp one used by a household
dustcart
A dustcart is a truck which collects the rubbish from the dustbins outside people's houses.
Chinese translation of 'garbage'
garbage
(ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ)
n(u)
(esp US, = rubbish) 垃圾 (lājī)
(= nonsense) 废(廢)话(話) (fèihuà)
(= bad film, book etc) 拙劣作品 (zhuōliè zuòpǐn)
1 (noun)
Definition
household waste
rotting piles of garbage
Synonyms
junk
What are you going to do with all that junk?
rubbish
unwanted household rubbish
litter
If you see litter in the corridor, pick it up.
trash mainly US)
The yards are overgrown and cluttered with trash.
refuse
a weekly collection of refuse
waste
This country produces 10 million tonnes of toxic waste every year.
sweepings
scraps
debris
Seven vehicles were damaged by flying debris.
muck
filth
tons of filth and sewage
swill
The porker ate swill from a trough.
slops
offal
detritus
burnt-out buildings, littered with the detritus of war
dross
recovering gold nuggets from dross
odds and ends
She packed her clothes and a few other odds and ends.
flotsam and jetsam
grot (slang)
leavings
dreck (slang, mainly US)
scourings
offscourings
2 (noun)
Definition
worthless rubbish or nonsense
I personally think the story is complete garbage.
Synonyms
nonsense
Most orthodox doctors, however, dismiss this theory as complete nonsense.
balls (taboo, slang)
bull (slang)
shit (taboo, slang)
This is a load of shit.
rot
You do talk rot!
crap (slang)
trash
Don't read that awful trash.
bullshit (taboo, slang)
hot air (informal)
tosh (informal)
pap
cobblers (British, taboo, slang)
bilge (informal)
I supported the family by writing bilge for popular magazines.
drivel
What absolute drivel!
twaddle
He was baffled by the intellectual twaddle.
tripe (informal)
I've never heard such a load of tripe in all my life.