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piece of garbage

Someone or something that is totally or utterly worthless, contemptible, or of very poor quality. This old car my grandfather gave me is nothing but a piece of garbage! You piece of garbage! You take that back or I'll smash your face in!

See also: garbage, of, piece

Garbage in, garbage out.

Prov. If you give nonsensical instructions to people or computers, those instructions will produce nonsensical results. Jill: Why is my computer generating all this gibberish? Jane: You must have made a mistake in the program. Garbage in, garbage out. Ed insists that children are so ignorant nowadays because their teachers are incompetent. "Garbage in, garbage out," he says.

See also: garbage, out

garbage something down

Sl. to gobble something up; to quickly swallow something down. Don't garbage your food down! That guy will garbage down almost anything.

See also: down, garbage

Garbage in, garbage out.

  (mainly American)

something you say which means that something produced from materials of low quality will also be of low quality The meals are pretty poor but then they never use fresh ingredients - garbage in, garbage out.

See also: garbage, out

garbage

1. n. nonsense; gibberish. He’s just talking garbage.

2. n. jumbled computer code. All I get is garbage on the screen.

garbage freak

and garbagehead

n. an addict who will take any drug. (Drugs.) They’re only teenagers and already they’re garbageheads. The garbageheads will take beans or anything else.

See also: freak, garbage

garbage mouth

n. someone who uses obscene language. Who’s the garbage mouth making all the noise?

See also: garbage, mouth

garbage something down

tv. to gobble something up; to bolt something down. That guy will garbage down almost anything.

See also: down, garbage