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rubbish

(by extension, chiefly, Commonwealth) An item, or items, of low quality.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

(by extension, chiefly, Commonwealth) An item, or items, of low quality.

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  • “basketball is rubbish. netball is far superior.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “See if the odyssey ends up being rubbish ill be very personally upset”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Utter rubbish, who are the child abusers he’s meeting with? I appreciate that the policy has terrible consequences but this sort of hysteria is counterproductive.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “EU politicians etc really need to start calling out the worse aspects of the US. It really won’t be difficult. Rubbish healthcare for its citizens is just the tip of it.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Obsolete rubbish. Most trusted, independent, unbiased news agency on the whole planet. Thanks for your conspiracy theory though. #DefendTheBBC”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(by extension, chiefly, Commonwealth) Nonsense.

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  • “the 4 stand on mower crew who mowed the bit that needed mowing never took all the rubbish thats along one wall nearby . they just left it. they all carry a big black bag for that....didnt bother though on that bit”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “"ValueError: This sheet is too large! Your sheet size is: 3168123, 10 Max sheet size is: 1048576, 16384" I don't know why I even thought exporting this data to .xlsx was a good idea. My needs have truly surpassed Microsoft's rubbish software. #Microslop”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I like the Mayor of London, but who is advising him on innovation policy? This is just dismal. Dated 1980s neoliberal STS rubbish that the key to innovation is strong ethical frameworks.... 🤮”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Yes, George Monbiot has fallen under my spell! No, unfortunately, my magical powers of hypnosis don't stretch far enough to make his 'journalism' any less rubbish. Sorry!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Crazy that we ever coined the term "Junk DNA". What's that bit for? Oh it's probably just a load of old rubbish”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

(chiefly, Commonwealth) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
Origin: [[File:India - Sights & Culture - Common garbage dump outside a temple (2566331277).jpg|thumb|A pile of rubbish in India]] , further origin ; possibly from , rubouse, rubbouse, and compare Anglo-, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from , from . Compare . The verb is derived from the noun. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “What a load of rubbish. Brexit has reduced GDP by 6% to 8%, so it's in the country's interests to try to get that business back. You betray your right wing, isolationist ideas with your post.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “At my parents’ there is a rare concurrence of all types of rubbish and recycling every five weeks or so. This is known as St All Bins Day.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Rubbish. It's trivially easy to criticise Israel without being antisemitic. That so many people fail at this reflects the level of antisemitism in society at large, including on campuses.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “It certainly did for me 💛 Although I still have the fear that every poem I share is going to be the one where people realise I'm rubbish and start poking me with sticks!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I’ve been excited for this - and I had a rubbish day at work so this is the perfect thing to cheer me up! Thank you @patcousins.bsky.social as always! #cryptic #crossword”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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