garbage
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Is garbage a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (England, dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire, archaic) foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.AustraliaCanadaCumbriaEnglandUSarchaicdialectaluncountable
2. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.AustraliaCanadaUSobsoleteuncountable
3. (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.Examples: "Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket."; "[…] the aging pro, in a much-heralded "boys against the girls" tennis match, annihilated Margaret Court with an array of "garbage shots and cotton balls.""AustraliaCanadaUSattributiveslanguncountable
4. (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.AustraliaCanadaUSuncountable
5. (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.AustraliaCanadaUSuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerateExamples: "I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence."Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gutAustraliaCanadaUSobsoletetransitive
adj (English)
1. (informal) bad, crap, shittyExamples: "Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”."; "half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage"; "If you have been with a man for more than five years and both of you have not planned to marry one another, the relationship is completely garbage, and you can do but nothing with it more than having a sexual life with one another."AustraliaCanadaUSinformalnot-comparable
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