garbo

1. (countable, Australia, informal) A rubbish collector; a garbage man.Examples: "Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning."; "The referendum papers, accompanied by a strong statement of Council′s position, was to be letterboxed by the Council′s “garbos” (rubbish collectors) and inspectors on a Thursday and collected by volunteers over the weekend."; "As far as Jasper was concerned, his mum being a garbo was pretty cool. She got to drive a truck and be home in time to take his little sisters to school. Before she got the job as a rubbish collector, his mum had done shift work and it was left to Jasper to get his sisters to school."Australiacountableinformal

2. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable, colloquial, derogatory) Garbage; something considered worthless.Examples: ""Any quartz in the Mountain?" / "Just garbo quartz, not enough to produce any electrical fields." / "No disruption in the magnetic field?" / "No, sir.""; "Then they beat me and burned me and locked me up, before handing me back like a piece of garbo, when I acted up or they got tired of me."; "Another Twitter user wrote, "I could lie to you and say that I'm totally not interested in that game [but] I am interested. It sucks so much that JKR is a transphobic piece of garbo. ... I think if I do play it, I'll make it clear in all promotions my feelings about JKR and also promote a trans charity for folks to donate their funds towards. Maybe it's not enough, and I might not have a lot of funds, but I do wanna use my voice to do what I can to support my trans friends.""AustraliaCanadaUScolloquialderogatoryuncountable