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garbage
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As a noun, garbage means food waste material of any kind. As an adjective, it means bad, crap, shitty.
Meanings of garbage
10 meaningsnoun
Food waste material of any kind.
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
“The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.”
A place or receptacle for waste material.
“He threw the newspaper into the garbage.”
Nonsense; gibberish.
“This machine translation is garbage”
Something or someone worthless.
sportsslangnorth americaattributiveAn easy shot.
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteThe bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
verb
chiefly usCanadaobsoleteTo eviscerate
adjective
informalBad, crap, shitty
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).