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garbage
noun- anything of poor quality or little or no worth; nonsense UK, 1592
From the sense as “refuse”. - The man was talking garbage. Willy Fowler knew this because he was an experimental nuclear physicist and nobody could do what the man, Fred Hoyle, was claiming[.] — The Guardian, 13 March 2003
- heroin; low-quality heroin US, 1962
- Tony never had anything but garbage, you know that, and I’ll put him right out of business. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 41, 1966
- Just stay away from the garbage. You know what I mean. — Goodfellas, 1990
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 209, 2002
- farm produce US
- — Wayne Floyd, Jason’s Authentic Dictionary of CB Slang, p. 17, 1976
- any and all food, usually low in protein and high in carbohydrate, not in a bodybuilder’s diet US
- — American Speech, p. 199, Fall 1984: “The language of bodybuilding”
- cocktail garnishes US
- I was mesmerized watching them at the service bar as they called in their drink orders and dredged the fruit containers for cocktail garnishes. (I remember we had called it “garbage.”) — Kathryn Leigh Scott, The Bunny Years, 1998
- in hot rodding, a surfeit of accessories unrelated to the car’s performance US
- Garbage – Unnecessary gadgets, equipment and chrome on car[.] — Fremont Drag Strip, Guide to Drag Racing, 1960
- in poker, the cards that have been discarded US
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 264, 1967
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