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rubbished Definition


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rubbish
noun
    1. Waste material; refuse; litter. Also used as an adjective.
      Example: rubbish bin
      Thesaurus: trash, garbage (US), litter, waste, junk, scrap, landfill, debris, refuse, offal, leavings.
    2. Worthless or useless material or objects.
    3. colloq
      Worthless or absurd talk, writing, etc; nonsense.
      Thesaurus: nonsense, bombast, gibberish, drivel, balderdash, claptrap, bunk, gobbledygook; Antonym: sense.
verb
    rubbished, rubbishing
    1. colloq
      To criticize or dismiss something as worthless.
Derivative: rubbishy
adj
    Worthless; trashy.
Etymology: 14c as noun; 1950s as verb



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