garbo

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garbo

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Clipping of garbage + -o (colloquialising suffix).

noun garbos

  1. Australia, countable, informal A rubbish collector; a garbage man. Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning.
  2. Australia, Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory, uncountable Garbage; something considered worthless. "Any quartz in the Mountain?" / "Just garbo quartz, not enough to produce any electrical fields." / "No disruption in the magnetic field?" / "No, sir."

Similar: bin man, dustman, garbage collector, garbage man, refuse collector, sanitation engineer, trashman

adjective

  1. colloquial, not comparable Useless or worthless. This film is garbo; they didn't hire any writers!

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MLA

"garbo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/garbo. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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garbo. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/garbo

Chicago

"garbo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/garbo.

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@misc{garbo_2026,
  title = {garbo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/garbo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}