garbage
Food waste material of any kind.
Noun 4 meanings
Food waste material of any kind.
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
“The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.”
Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
“Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.”
A place or receptacle for waste material.
“He threw the newspaper into the garbage.”
Etymology
From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
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GARBAGE at a glance
GARBAGE has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (G 2 + A 1 + R 1 + B 3 + A 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,235 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with garbage
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