Usually means: Discarded materials, often considered waste.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. garbage: Merriam-Webster
  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: FreeDictionary.org
  22. garbage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. garbage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. garbage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. garbage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  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:  (England, dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire, archaic) foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
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.
noun:  (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
noun:  (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
adjective:  (informal) bad, crap, shitty

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