noun

• 1North American Rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse.

  ‘garbage littered the estate’

  More example sentences

  • ‘a garbage dump’
  • ‘Americans are right to refuse truckloads of garbage that contain biomedical waste and radioactive material.’
  • ‘It has a chronic waste problem with garbage and sewerage littering the edges of the coral reef that forms the island.’
  • ‘People living along the river banks admit that they always dump the waste into the river as there is no garbage dump in the neighborhood.’
  • ‘There was throughout the city the sweet, pulpy stench of garbage, waste, and rot.’
  • ‘Now the doors of the elevator open, and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.’
  • ‘Much of this increase has been attributed to the availability of garbage and fish waste.’
  • ‘For example, most customers don't know that these big boats dump raw sewage and garbage at sea.’
  • ‘Human waste and garbage is polluting main water tanks, which are present in these areas.’
  • ‘Tons of garbage dumped into the sea off Borneo regularly washes up, littering the beach with bottles, cans and plastic bags.’
  • ‘There are too many open storm water drains into which garbage is dumped.’
  • ‘The Government must impose fine on those who dump garbage in public places.’
  • ‘There is only an enclosure there where the whole colony's garbage is dumped.’
  • ‘Gone are the days when a resident could quietly dump a bag of garbage by the roadside and proceed on his morning walk.’
  • ‘I called to complain about garbage that was being dumped in front of the building.’
  • ‘His argument was that the Corporation had no right to dump the urban garbage in the rural areas.’
  • ‘Allowing Bradford's garbage to be dumped in Skibeden will hasten the day this landfill site is full.’
  • ‘They dump garbage on the streets much the way one would expect of primitive people.’
  • ‘The striking workers protested outside the municipal council office and dumped garbage on the steps.’
  • ‘The streets are littered with garbage and lined with open sewers.’
  • ‘That was the show where he built a rocket ship from scrap metal and garbage.’

  Synonyms

  refuse, domestic refuse, waste, waste material, debris, detritus, litter, junk, scrap, discarded matter

  View synonyms

  1. 1.1Worthless or meaningless material or ideas; rubbish.
     ‘a store full of overpriced garbage’
     More example sentences

     • ‘I figured this idea was garbage, and that he was too much of an egomaniac to base his movies on anyone else's work but his.’
     • ‘Try to copy a short-cut with a right click, and you'll get meaningless garbage.’
     • ‘It took an awfully long time, though, and my computer is full of garbage.’
     • ‘Don't you see, it's the likes of you and your ilk, who keep writing this unfounded garbage, that keep the fires stoked.’
     • ‘The moral of the story: don't take that garbage on Amazon's message boards seriously in the first place.’
     Synonyms

     nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, blarney, claptrap, guff, blather, blether

     View synonyms
  2. 1.2Computing Unwanted data in a computer's memory.
     ‘What will double is all the garbage we store on our computers, which is to say not much of real value.’
     More example sentences

     • ‘It wastes a portion of our lives to filter through the computer garbage.’
     • ‘We ran Mailwasher Pro to filter out the garbage in the nine e-mail accounts we check from that workstation, then ran NEO.’
     • ‘Transcoding from one algorithm to another may simply produce garbage.’