garbage
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ/
- US
:
cubo de basura
- Please put the old newspapers in the garbage bin.
- a garbage can
- a garbage bag
- a garbage cart
And he's like, look, let's put our garbage in the garbage cans, OK?
- And he's like, look, let's put our garbage in the garbage cans, OK?
- Things such as remnants of cloth and used clothing tossed in garbage cans and containers.
- No, we use that as a garbage can.
- And this little baby, so taller, they left him by a garbage can.
- So maybe we'll soon all put our plastic into a warm tank and whoever brings out the garbage, it won't be me.
- So I opened my garbage can and just like Gronk, I spiked the fuck.
Examples
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They usually pick up the garbage in an hour.
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The City Council awarded a contract last month to replace 3,000 garbage cans with multicompartment recycling.
Academic text (1999) -
Here we go with the garbage can.
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Maybe over by the garbage can.
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Take it out to the garbage, please.
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One day I was sitting at home, my mother asked me to take the garbage out.
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If someone looked in your bathroom garbage right now, what would they find?
Academic text (2011) -
Uh, you can take out the garbage.
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Then I emptied the waste cans into the kitchen garbage and took the bag outside.
Fiction book (1992) -
And he's like, look, let's put our garbage in the garbage cans, OK?
Synonyms
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2.7
A large metal container for holding garbage outside buildings
119
1.0
A container with a lid for storing or throwing away things
72
1.0
A container for holding rubbish until it is collected
60
1.0
A bin with a lid that holds household waste until someone takes it away
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1.0
A strong plastic bag used to hold and carry garbage
15
1.0
A container with an open top for holding paper and small bits of rubbish
4
1.0
A container for holding rubbish until it is taken away
2
1.1
A large round bin for holding rubbish until someone collects it
2
1.3
A container with an open top for small trash like paper
A bin for rubbish kept until it is collected
A bin in public places where people put trash
A container for household rubbish that collectors empty
A container for a specific kind of waste, for example food or batteries
A strong plastic bag used to hold household waste
Compounds
18
2.7
A device under a kitchen sink that grinds food waste so it goes down the drain
- Specialized
1
3.8
An automatic process that frees memory no longer used by a program
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Etymology
Garbage also came to mean the container because people named the bin after the 'waste' put in it. So a 'garbage' can mean both the trash and the bin that holds it.