garbage truck
(US, Canada) A vehicle for the collection and removal of domestic waste.
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The weekly ADHD ritual of running the recycling you didn't put out last night across the street to your neighbour's place right after the garbage truck drives past your house
I have pressure washed out a literal garbage truck in the August heat for 3 hours and this smells worse than that I’m literally gagging doing leg presses
Only the FOTUS, who is orange garbage, would project a image of himself getting 86'd. Now you'll need thousands of garbage truck to clean up his mess of the USA and world thanks to GOP CARNAGE.
Rode my bike into work today alongside an EV garbage truck and, boy, does electrification sure have the potential to improve the level of ambient noise in urban environments
youtube.com/watch?v=j2sc... RUNAWAY SALE Role Models for the Garbage Truck: These women are victims of themselves and teaching other women to be surface clowns. All rag, no brain. Hurray! #politics #newyork media #dem…
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(US, Canada) A vehicle for the collection and removal of domestic waste.
“The weekly ADHD ritual of running the recycling you didn't put out last night across the street to your neighbour's place right after the garbage truck drives past your house”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I have pressure washed out a literal garbage truck in the August heat for 3 hours and this smells worse than that I’m literally gagging doing leg presses”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Only the FOTUS, who is orange garbage, would project a image of himself getting 86'd. Now you'll need thousands of garbage truck to clean up his mess of the USA and world thanks to GOP CARNAGE.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Rode my bike into work today alongside an EV garbage truck and, boy, does electrification sure have the potential to improve the level of ambient noise in urban environments”
— Bluesky· May 2026“youtube.com/watch?v=j2sc... RUNAWAY SALE Role Models for the Garbage Truck: These women are victims of themselves and teaching other women to be surface clowns. All rag, no brain. Hurray! #politics #newyork media #dementia dupes braless brainless #ballrooms #news”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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