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Collocations for garbage - noun

1. (esp. AmE) waste material

ADJECTIVE

household, kitchen (AmE)
rotting

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… OF GARBAGE

bag, pile
tons

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VERB + garbage

take out (AmE)
Don't forget to take out the garbage.
collect, remove
During the crisis, garbage was not collected.
dispose of, dump, throw, throw away, throw out
Someone just dumped their garbage into my backyard.
leave
strew, strew around (both usually passive)
There was garbage strewn around everywhere.
pick up
We picked up all the garbage we could find.

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garbage + NOUN

bag, can
I put the broken glass in the garbage can.
truck
dump, heap
collection, disposal
chute

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PHRASES

throw sth in the garbage

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2. (informal) sth that is stupid or not true

ADJECTIVE

absolute, complete, pure, utter
This movie is pure garbage.
worthless
His ideas were discarded like worthless garbage.
old
It's mostly the same old garbage.

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PHRASES

garbage in, garbage out
a piece of garbage, a pile of garbage
The second series was a piece of garbage.

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