Garbage

Definition: Garbage

Garbage

Noun

1. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "garbage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Environment

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Garbage

Relinquishment

Discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish.

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Unmeaningness

Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility).

Worthlessness

Trash, garbage.

Crosswords: Garbage

I have recently been placed in charge of garbage. Do you have any that needs to be disposed of (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

Into the garbage chute, flyboy (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

I've never seen garbage eat garbage before (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

There is what you have, which is garbage and you can see where thats gotten you. There is brass, which is very good as long as nothing goes wrong (Moonstruck; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley. Starring Cher as Loretta Castorini and Nicolas Cage as Ronny Cammareri.)

Why? I eat from garbage cans, drink from public toilets (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

Garbage and city lights, (Somewhere Out There; performing artist: Our Lady Peace)

Get all that garbage out of sight ("Yakety Yak"; performing artist: The Coasters)

The breakfast garbage that you throw in to the Bay, (Pollution; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

What is this garbage here (I Can't Watch This; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. (references; author: Woody Allen)

The Garbage Man (1965)

Ham at the Garbage Gentleman's Ball (1915)

Garbage Day (1999)

The Garbage Man (1996)

Garbage Pail Kids (1988)

#1 Crush (performing artist: Garbage)

Stupid Girl (performing artist: Garbage)

Androgyny (performing artist: Garbage)

Special (performing artist: Garbage)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag (reference)

• Garbage Collectors (In My Neighborhood) (reference)

• Garbage Wars : The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (reference)

• In and Out of the Garbage Pail (reference)

• Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Garbage Day (reference)

• There Goes a Garbage Truck (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Garbage Concerto/ Rock Symphony (reference)

• Garbage (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Bear at the garbage dump Triangulation work for military on Alcan Highway in Yukon Territory, Canada Triangulation party of John Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pollywog taking a bath Yum! Yum! A bath and lunch at the same Nothing better than fermented garbage A 1985 crossing of the line on the MALCOLM BALDRIGE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Poster emphasizing not to throw garbage from vessels. Credit: Fisheries.

Seabirds eating garbage tossed overboard from vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

Picking up garbage along the Sandy River. Credit: T. Hogervorst.

A young lady attempting to get through yellow starthistle to empty garbage at Pit River, California. Credit: Jerry Asher.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 57, Paris, France. : Garbage is kept in cans and sold to a farmer, the proceeds are given to the mess fund. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army. Base Hospital No. 94, Pruniers, France. : Garbage cans. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

View from overhead, looking forward from just off the starboard quarter, while the ship was at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 2 January 1942. Note the after 3"/50 guns in the lower part of the image, and men handling a container of garbage at the head of the gangway nearby. The lighter YF-244 is alongside the battleship in upper left. Credit: NAVY.

Navy ships moored in an anchorage area, surrounded by anti-torpedo nets, 12 July 1942. Three ships nested together in the center are (from bottom): USS Ballard (AVD-10); USS Hammondsport (APV-2) and USS Vestal (AR-4). A garbage lighter (YG) is also inside the enclosure, at right. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Elevate hay, woodpiles and garbage cans to eliminate possible nesting sites. (references)

The parasite is especially common in rats and in swine that feed on uncooked garbage. (references)

Harmful noises at home may come from vacuum cleaners, garbage disposals, lawn mowers, leaf blowers and shop tools. (references)

Business

Fees paid for treated water and garbage collection, for example, are very low by international standards. (references)

Growth areas for U.S. industry include water treatment, air pollution control, machinery and technology for recycling, garbage collecting methods, and solid waste treatment. (references)

The plan, which will receive a 5.25 billion baht concessional loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, calls for a waste separation plant to process 2,000 tons of garbage a day, an incinerator with a daily capacity of 1,350 tons a day and an 800 ton per day composting plant. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Many street children work under hazardous conditions as scavengers, garbage pickers, and on fishing platforms and fishing boats. (references)

Cameroon

There were several credible stories of mothers (usually young, unemployed, and unmarried) abandoning newborns in streets, garbage cans, and pit toilets. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

However, municipalities set the local rates for water and garbage collection. (references)

Minorities

Greece

Most Romani camps have no running water, electricity, garbage disposal, or sewage treatment. (references)

Political Economy

Uruguay

The coalition won the capital's municipal government for the first time in 1989 and was reelected in 1994 and 1999. During its administration of Montevideo, it has raised land and property taxes significantly and services such as garbage collection and parks and plazas maintenance have been given to private companies on a concession basis. (references)

Trade

Jamaica

Factory space is made available in modules of 6,000 sq. ft. including services (security, external lighting, maintenance of common areas, and garbage collection and disposal). (references)

Worker Rights

Nicaragua

The law prohibits child labor in areas such as mines and garbage dumps and imposes heavy fines for illegal employment. (references)

El Salvador

The Steering Committee identified prostitution, work in garbage dumps, fishing, sugarcane farming, and fireworks manufacturing as the worst forms of child labor in the country. (references)

Ecuador

In urban areas, many children under 12 years of age work in family-owned "businesses" in the informal sector, shining shoes, collecting and recycling garbage, or as street peddlers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "garbage": copying garbage collection ♦ garbage bag ♦ garbage can ♦ garbage carter ♦ garbage chute ♦ garbage collect ♦ garbage collection ♦ garbage collector ♦ garbage compactor ♦ garbage disposal ♦ garbage disposer ♦ garbage dump ♦ garbage grinder ♦ garbage hauler ♦ garbage heap ♦ garbage incinerator ♦ garbage man ♦ garbage pickup ♦ garbage skip ♦ garbage truck ♦ liquid garbage ♦ removal of digital garbage. Additional references.

Beginning with "garbage": garbage-bins, garbage-can, garbage-collection, garbage-dispersed, garbage-disposal, garbage-dump, garbage-filled.

Ending with "garbage": beach-garbage.

Albanian

gjë pa vlerë (dud, dust, fiddlesticks, lemon, peanuts, picayune), plehra (dust, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, sweepings, tailings, trash, waste), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلام تافه, ‏نفاية (chaff, dump, junk, outcast, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scouring, short, slush, soil, swill, trash, waste), ‏قمامة (muck, mud, refuse, rubbish, soil, sweeping, sweepings, swill, trash), ‏قاذورات (rubbish, sweepings, trash), ‏زبالة (rubbish, trash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отпадъци (carrion, dregs, dross, husks, junk, leavings, litter, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, raffle, rubbish, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, trash, tripe, waste). (various references)

Chinese 

垃圾 (rubbish, trash). (various references)

Czech

smetí (litter, rubbish, sweep, sweepings, trash), odpadky (litter, oddments, offal, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, trash, trimmings), hloupost (dullness, fatuity, fatuousness, foolishness, ineptitude, ineptness, lunacy, silliness, simplicity, stupidity, trifle), blbost (balls, bull, bunk, crap, stupidity). (various references)

Danish

uoenskede data (unwanted and meaningless information in memory or on tape), skrald (debris, rubbish, rubble), koekkenaffald (food waste), affaldsstoffer (refuse, waste), affald (arisings, detritus, discard, effluent, filter cake, going about, offcut, refuse, residue, salvage, scrap, trash, waste). (various references)

Dutch

afval (apostasy, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

Esperanto

sarkindaĵo (refuse, rubbish, waste), forĵetindaĵo (leavings, refuse, rubbish, waste). (various references)

Faeroese

ruskdungi (garbage dump). (various references)

Farsi 

فضولات (Garble, Refuse), زباله (Dump, Ordure, Rubbish), اشغال خاکروبه , روده (Bowel, Gut). (various references)

Finnish

törky (dirt, filth, refuse, rubbish, trash), roskat (refuse), roskakirjallisuus (trashy literature), rikat (refuse, sweepings), keittiöjäte (food waste), jätteet (leavings, offal, refuse, rubbish, table scraps), jäte (remnant, residue, waste). (various references)

French

ordures. (various references)

Frisian

jiskefet (garbage can). (various references)

German

abfall (apostasy, breakaway, breaking away, declension, defection, drop, litter, offal, offall, refuse, rubbish, slide, trash, wastage, waste), müll (debris, dust, junk, midden, refuse, rubbish, rubble, trash, waste). (various references)

Greek 

σκουπίδια (junk, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references)

Hebrew 

אשפה (dirt, dung, dunghill, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), זבל (compost, dung, excrement, manure, ordure, rubbish, trash). (various references)

Hungarian

szemét (dreck, dross, have no end of money, litter, offal, punk, rubbish, rubbishy, scum, sleaze, sleazo, sleazy, snotty, sodding, stinky, sweepings, trash), hulladék (cabbage, clippings, cut-offs, cuttings, debris, dross, end, junk, lop, oddments, offal, paring, pickings, refuse, scrapings, spilt, spoilage, sweepings, trash, wastage, waste). (various references)

Indonesian

sampah (carrion, litter, rubbish, trash). (various references)

Italian

rifiuti (cull, litter, offal, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, swill, trash). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

がらがら蛇 (deserted, emptiness, empty, hollowness, jumble, odds and ends, pickled ginger, rattlesnake, sliced shouga prepared in vinegar served with sushi, to be deserted, to be empty, void), 残飯 (food scraps), 汚物 (dirt, dust), 廃棄物 (trash, waste, waste matter), 廃品 (waste), ガーター編み (African daisy, Gacrux, garbology, garden, garden party, garden smoker, garlic, garnet, garter stitch, gaucho, gaucho hat, gaucho look, gaucho pants, gauss, Gaussian, Geiger counter, gerbera, girder bridge, girdle, girl, girl friend, girl hunt, Girl Scouts, gown, guard, guard bunker, guard cable, guardian, guardrail, guidance, guide number, guidebook, guideline, guidepost, guile, guy, security guard, spirit, tour guide), 塵 (dirt, dust, rubbish, trash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おぶつ (dirt, dust), がらくた (jumble, odds and ends), ざんぱん (food scraps), ごみ (rubbish, trash), ガーベージ , はいきぶつ (trash, waste, waste matter), はいひん (waste). (various references)

Korean 

쓰레기 (junk, trash). (various references)

Manx

trustyr (deads, debris, dirt, dross, filth, junk, muck, muckiness, nastiness, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash, trash rubbish), fooillagh (deposit, left over, oddments, remainder, remains, remnant, scraps, surplus, wastage). (various references)

Norwegian

søppel (litter), avfall (refuse, rubbish, waste). (various references)

Pig Latin

arbagegay.(various references)

Portuguese

lixo (filth, litter, offscourings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, trash, waste). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

lixo. (various references)

Romanian

gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), resturi (draff, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), buc (rubbish, slops). (various references)

Russian 

отбросы (chaff, cheese-parings, dross, filth, junk, leavings, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, tailings, throw out, throw-out, waifs and strays, waste), мусор мусорный, мусор (gubbish, litter, ordure, refuse, rubbish, slop, sweepings, trash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smeće (litter, offscourings, raff, refuse, trash), đubre (dung, fertilizer, junk, laystall, muck, offscourings, ordure, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references)

Spanish

basura (catlap, dirt, draff, dregs, dust, dustbin, junk, leak, litter, mullock, refuse, rubbish, scourings, tat, trash, waste). (various references)

Swedish

strunt (balderdash, blah, bosh, fiddlededee, piffle, pipsqueak, punk, rot, rubbish, squirt), skräp (debris, dross, duffer, junk, kitsch, litter, lumber, pulp, rubbish, shoddy, trash, waste), köksavfall (food waste), avskräde (dross, offal), avfall (apostasy, backsliding, chips, cutting, cuttings, defection, dross, falling away, leavings, litter, odd-come-short, offal, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, waste). (various references)

Thai

ขยะ (rubbish, scum). (various references)

Turkish

zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), süprüntü (brushing, candle-end, dreg, dregs, dross, offscourings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings, sweeps, trumpery), değersiz data, boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash), çöp (brushing, chip, crud, discard, dregs, junk, leavings, litter, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, straw, trash, waste). (various references)

Turkmen 

zibil (litter, trash), яuwundy (dust, slops). (various references)

Ukrainian

сміття (mullock, ordure, raffle, waste), макулатура (wastepaper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lòng (dog's-meat, heart). (various references)

Welsh

sothach (refuse, rubbish, trash). (various references)

quisquiliae, quisquiliae, quisquiliarum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "garbage": garbageman, garbagemen, garbages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Garbage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agbrigg, gabage, Gabarek, gambare, Gaobaeb, garabge, garagen, Garbade, garbagey, garmage, Gebirge, grobags, Ngarba, Ngarbaye. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bagger, beggar, garage, ragbag.

-2 letters: agger, barge, eggar, gager.

-3 letters: agar, ager, area, bare, bear, berg, brae, brag, gaga, gage, garb, gear, grab, raga, rage.

-4 letters: aba, aga, age, arb, are, baa, bag, bar, beg, bra, ear, egg, era, erg, gab, gae, gag, gar, rag, reb, reg.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ae, ag, ar, ba, be.

+1 letter: garbages.

+3 letters: brigandage, gangbanger, garbageman, garbagemen, sandbagger.

+4 letters: ballyragged, brigandages, gangbangers, sandbaggers.

+5 letters: carpetbagger.