Definition of "garbage" in English

noun

1. Food waste material of any kind.

2. (England, dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire, archaic) foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.

3. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

   • The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

4. A place or receptacle for waste material.

   • He threw the newspaper into the garbage.

5. Nonsense; gibberish.

   • This machine translation is garbage.

6. Something or someone worthless.

7. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

8. (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.

9. (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.

10. (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.

verb

1. (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate

   • I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

adjective

1. (informal) bad, crap, shitty