Meaning of garbo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rubbish collector; a garbage man.
   Australia, countable, informal
2. Garbage; something considered worthless.
   Australia, Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“Another Twitter user wrote, "I could lie to you and say that I'm totally not interested in that game [but] I am interested. It sucks so much that JKR is a transphobic piece of garbo. ... I think if I do play it, I'll make it clear in all promotions my feelings about JKR and also promote a trans charity for folks to donate their funds towards. Maybe it's not enough, and I might not have a lot of funds, but I do wanna use my voice to do what I can to support my trans friends."”

“Then Noelle told me she's a Paralympian and I was like, "Well, my lie was just garbo. That was terrible. Noelle, you're a beast!"”

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