Definitions for garbageˈgɑr bɪdʒ

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

gar•bageˈgɑr bɪdʒ(n.)

discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen.
any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.
Category: Common Vocabulary
anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile.
worthless talk or data.

Origin of garbage:

1400–50; late ME: discarded parts of butchered fowls; cf. ME garbelage the removal of waste from spices (< OF)

Princeton's WordNet

garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps(noun)
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
drivel, garbage(noun)
a worthless message
garbage(noun)
a receptacle where waste can be discarded
"she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

garbage(noun)ˈgɑr bɪdʒ
waste, especially food waste
piles of garbage at the dump
garbageˈgɑr bɪdʒ
sth worthless or useless
the garbage he watches on TV

Wiktionary

garbage(Noun)
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
garbage(Noun)
Nonsense; gibberish.
garbage(Noun)
Something or someone worthless.
garbage(Verb)
To eviscerate.

Origin: "the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste", originally "refuse, what is purged away" from garber "to refine, make neat or clean", of origin, akin to garawan "to prepare, make ready", gearwian. More at garb, yare, gear

Webster Dictionary

Garbage(noun)
offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome
Garbage(verb)
to strip of the bowels; to clean