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crappy | garbage |

As an adjective crappy

is (chiefly|north america|colloquial|mildly|vulgar) of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.

As a noun garbage is

the bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

As a verb garbage is

(obsolete) to eviscerate.

crappy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (chiefly, North America, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
    • That is such a crappy car.
    The referee just made a really crappy call.
    ''The food there used to be good but now it's crappy .
  • Bad, sick, or depressed.
    • I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.
  • (chiefly, North America, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
    • Put the crappy diapers in the blue pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.

    Alternative forms

    * crap (chiefly, UK)

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "crappy" is often applied: job, day, weather, thing, food, movie, apartment, life, service, mood, hotel, car, phone, town, product, attitude, software, household goods.

    Synonyms

    * (covered in crap) shitty, poopy * (of very poor quality) shitty, lousy, tatty

    garbage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * garbidge

    Noun

    (-)
  • The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • Food waste material of any kind.
    • Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
  • 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.
  • (often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • * 2009 , David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips , ISBN 9780967851488, p. 8:
    • Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.

    Synonyms

    * junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste * See also

    Antonyms

    * artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

    Derived terms

    * garbage bag * garbage bin * garbage can * garbage collect * garbage collector * garbage collection * garbage disposal * garbage dump * * garbage man * garbage mitt * garbage scow * garbage time * garbage truck * garbo * garbologist

    Verb

    (garbag)
  • (obsolete) To eviscerate.
  • * 1674 , , ''The Passenger Pigeon , 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
    • I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

    Synonyms

    * gut * disembowel * eviscerate

    See also

    * American English