garbage
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1 (esp. AmE) waste materialADJECTIVE▪ household, kitchen (AmE)▪ rotting… OF GARBAGE▪ bag, pile▪ tonsVERB + GARBAGE▪ take out (AmE)▪
Don't forget to take out the garbage.
▪ collect, remove▪During the crisis, garbage was not collected.
▪ dispose of, dump, throw, throw away, throw out▪Someone just dumped their garbage into my backyard.
▪ leave▪ strew, strew around (both usually passive)▪There was garbage strewn around everywhere.
▪ pick up▪We picked up all the garbage we could find.
GARBAGE + NOUN▪ bag, can▪I put the broken glass in the garbage can.
▪ truck▪ dump, heap▪ collection, disposal▪ chutePHRASES▪ throw sth in the garbage2 (informal) sth that is stupid or not trueADJECTIVE▪ absolute, complete, pure, utter▪This movie is pure garbage.
▪ worthless▪His ideas were discarded like worthless garbage.
▪ old▪It's mostly the same old garbage.
PHRASES▪ garbage in, garbage out▪ a piece of garbage, a pile of garbage▪The second series was a piece of garbage.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
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