garbo
/ɡˈɑɹboʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Garbage; something considered worthless.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; American usage; Colloquial; Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning."
- "The referendum papers, accompanied by a strong statement of Council′s position, was to be letterboxed by the Council′s “garbos” (rubbish collectors) and inspectors on a Thursday and collected by volunteers over the weekend."
- "As far as Jasper was concerned, his mum being a garbo was pretty cool. She got to drive a truck and be home in time to take his little sisters to school. Before she got the job as a rubbish collector, his mum had done shift work and it was left to Jasper to get his sisters to school."
- "The priest would bring salvation while the garbo took the rubbish."
- ""Any quartz in the Mountain?" / "Just garbo quartz, not enough to produce any electrical fields." / "No disruption in the magnetic field?" / "No, sir.""
- "Then they beat me and burned me and locked me up, before handing me back like a piece of garbo, when I acted up or they got tired of me."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: o