garbage — OET

garbage North American

noun

1 the garbage is taken to landfill sites:

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

filth, swill, muck, dross;

scraps, scourings, leftovers, remains, slops;

British rubbish;

North American trash;

Australian, New Zealand mullock;

informal drek, dreck;

British, informal grot, gash;

Archaeology debitage;

rare draff, raffle, raff, cultch, orts.

2 most of what they write will be garbage:

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

British rubbish;

informal hogwash, baloney, tripe, drivel, gobbledygook, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, hot air, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, twaddle, dribble;

British, informal rot, cobblers, codswallop, cock, stuff and nonsense, tosh, double Dutch, flannel, waffle;

Scottish, & Northern English, informal havers;

North American, informal flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce;

US, informal bellywash;

informal , dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee;

vulgar slang shit, bullshit, crap, bollocks, balls;

North American, vulgar slang crapola;

Australian, New Zealand, vulgar slang bulldust.

▷antonyms sense.

garbage Oxford Dictionary of English