| Garbage 1. (n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. 2. (v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean. Thesaurus Entries bilge, bilgewater, bones, carrion, chaff, crap, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, ditchwater, draff, dregs, dross, dust, filings, filth, gash, hogwash, husks, junk, kelter, leavings, lees, litter, muck, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, rubble, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, slack, slag, slop, slops, slough, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, trash, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds |