rubbish
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- noun
- /ˈrʌbɪʃ/
- UK
:
basura
- Put your rubbish in a bin.
- rubbish dump
- heaps of rubbish
- rubbish bins
And then I just have loads of rubbish really left.
- And then I just have loads of rubbish really left.
- They plotted up, hidden behind some rubbish bins.
- He just opened up his business doing waste disposal and rubbish collection.
- Was there not a story associated with your photo to do with people leaving rubbish on the mountain?
- I don't know the name but she got a truck where they physically come and take all the rubbish out the church.
- Trucks, lorries, cookies, biscuits, trash, rubbish, gasoline, petrol and so on.
- Ticket sales are only in the yard, never carried on with the rubbish.
Examples
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There's so much rubbish in here that we need to take out.
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Every time I see that rubbish heap, I think of it as a heap of discarded reality.
Fiction book (1992) -
Was there not a story associated with your photo to do with people leaving rubbish on the mountain?
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We put what was left on the rubbish tip.
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What do you care where you throw your rubbish?
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I'm a cleaner, I clean the rubbish from the street.
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There's a lot of rubbish in the kitchen yard.
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Cats are rooting through the rubbish in the inner courtyard.
Fiction book (1997) -
The immense piles of rubbish create a strange landscape in The Scavengers.
Academic text (2000) -
Please take your rubbish to the bin after the picnic.
Synonyms
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Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
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Things people throw away because they are unwanted
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Unwanted food and other waste from a home or kitchen that you throw away
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Waste left in public places like streets and parks
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Things like old or broken items that are thrown away
Things people throw away because they are not useful
Old or unwanted things thrown away
Antonyms
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How Useful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rubbish originally meant broken stones and other waste, a meaning you can see in the similar word rubble. So rubbish now means the things you throw away or do not want.