Usually means: Discarded materials, often considered waste.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. garbage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. garbage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. garbage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. garbage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. garbage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Garbage, garbage: Wordnik
  7. garbage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. garbage: Wiktionary
  9. garbage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. garbage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. garbage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Garbage, garbage: Dictionary.com
  13. garbage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. garbage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Garbage (Autechre EP), Garbage (EP), Garbage (album), Garbage (band), Garbage (computer science), Garbage (disambiguation), Garbage (film), Garbage, The garbage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Garbage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. garbage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. garbage: Rhymezone
  19. garbage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. garbage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. garbage: Free Dictionary
  22. garbage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. garbage: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. garbage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. garbage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. The garbage: Legal dictionary
  2. The garbage, garbage: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. garbage: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. The garbage, garbage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The garbage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. garbage: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. garbage, garbage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Garbage: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Garbage: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garbage: Card Games

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Food waste material of any kind.
▸ noun:  Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
▸ noun:  A place or receptacle for waste material.
▸ noun:  Nonsense; gibberish.
▸ noun:  Something or someone worthless.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
▸ noun:  (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.
▸ verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
▸ adjective:  (informal) bad, crap, shitty

Similar:
refuse, food waste, scraps, junk, kitchenings, roughage, rubbish, recrement, waste, trash, more...

Opposite:
treasure, valuables, assets, gems, riches

Types:
organic waste, recyclables, compost, electronic waste, hazardous waste, medical waste, plastic waste, food waste, construction waste, more...

Phrases:
garbage collection, garbage can, garbage cans, garbage disposal, garbage collector, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, old, human, own, uncollected, plastic, raw, municipal, wet, large

Colors:
    brown,     gray,     black,     dark green,     olive,     rust,     mustard,     maroon,     beige,     khaki


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Similar:
refuse, food waste, scraps, junk, kitchenings, roughage, rubbish, recrement, waste, trash, more...

Opposite:
treasure, valuables, assets, gems, riches

Types:
organic waste, recyclables, compost, electronic waste, hazardous waste, medical waste, plastic waste, food waste, construction waste, more...

Phrases:
garbage collection, garbage can, garbage cans, garbage disposal, garbage collector, garbage dump, garbage bag, garbage bags, garbage truck, garbage collectors, garbage trucks, garbage man, garbage heap, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, old, human, own, uncollected, plastic, raw, municipal, wet, large

Colors:
    brown,     gray,     black,     dark green,     olive,     rust,     mustard,     maroon,     beige,     khaki



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