garbage disposal
18
2.7
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ dɪsˈpoʊzəl/
- US
:
triturador de basura
- After dinner, I turned on the garbage disposal to grind up the leftover food waste.
- fix a garbage disposal
- kitchen garbage disposal
- garbage disposal might clog
Also, when you're done with your lemon rinds, put them down your garbage disposal.
- Also, when you're done with your lemon rinds, put them down your garbage disposal.
- It sounds like sounds like a pig having a really bad day, like a garbage disposal.
Examples
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Grinding lemons in your garbage disposal does deodorize it.
Blog text (12) -
What can and cannot be placed in a garbage disposal?
Blog text (8) -
- What is it? - It looks like a garbage disposal.
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"I love my new garbage disposal," she said.
Fiction book (2001) -
I put it down the garbage disposal.
Fiction book (1999) -
To increase the useful life of your garbage disposal, clean it out regularly.
Blog text (5) -
Is your garbage disposal backed up?
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When we moved in, we had to sign a form promising not to put fish bones down the garbage disposal.
Fiction book (1995) -
Turns out that kale can get majorly stuck in there, and our garbage disposal stopped working.
Blog text (24) -
Tip: Grind the used lemon rinds in your garbage disposal to help deodorize it.
Blog text (12)
Synonyms
33
3.5
A machine under a kitchen sink that grinds food waste
1
4.3
A person or machine that gets rid of waste, especially food scraps
How Powerful
- US
18
2.7
1
4.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: combining 'garbage' (refuse) with 'disposal' (a means/device for getting rid of something) yields a device for disposing of garbage. This is a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern and a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the referent (the kitchen unit that grinds/gets rid of food waste).
Etymology
Garbage disposal is a machine under the kitchen sink that grinds up garbage, like food scraps, so it can be washed down the drain. So the phrase joins garbage and disposal and means a device to 'dispose' of food waste.