garbage
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
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Our press is mostly utter garbage these days.
https://xcancel.com/BowesChay?t=QFoJsi-uSAZs44kgWy2SIQ&s=35 Meet the kid from Ethiopia who creates fashionable outfits from garbage. Kalu Putik collects fabric scraps, household junk and creates "Fashionable
ill take a mouse issue over when i first moved into this apartment and i was being attacked by bees and rats would jump on me when i moved the garbage
nice try, Nolan. it looks like non-linear garbage.
It's a fun movie, people are just mean. If people can stomach garbage like Batman v. Superman, and get the abysmal Justice League a new cut that's only slightly better, then Sucker Punch deserves love, too.
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Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.
“Our press is mostly utter garbage these days.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“https://xcancel.com/BowesChay?t=QFoJsi-uSAZs44kgWy2SIQ&s=35 Meet the kid from Ethiopia who creates fashionable outfits from garbage. Kalu Putik collects fabric scraps, household junk and creates "Fashionable”
— Bluesky· May 2026“ill take a mouse issue over when i first moved into this apartment and i was being attacked by bees and rats would jump on me when i moved the garbage”
— Bluesky· May 2026“nice try, Nolan. it looks like non-linear garbage.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It's a fun movie, people are just mean. If people can stomach garbage like Batman v. Superman, and get the abysmal Justice League a new cut that's only slightly better, then Sucker Punch deserves love, too.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Food waste material of any kind.
The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
"garbage" means: Food waste material of any kind.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"garbage" means: Food waste material of any kind.. Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
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(England, dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire, archaic) Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.
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