rubbishnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/us/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/B1 UK US garbage, trash waste material or things that are no longer wanted or needed:
I forgot to put the rubbish out this morning.
Put the empty box in the rubbish bin.
Take the old furniture to the rubbish dump.
B2 informal something that you think is very low quality or not true:
The film was rubbish.
His ideas are a load of (old) rubbish.
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- Residents have called for a clean-up campaign to keep their streets free from rubbish.
- It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.
- He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
- Look at all this rubbish on the floor.
- Tie up the top of the bag so the rubbish doesn't fall out.
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Rubbish and waste
- debris
- detritus
- dross
- effluent
- flotsam
- jetsam
- jumble
- junk
- kitsch
- litter
- recycle
- refuse
- rubble
- scrap
- scrap heap
- spoil
- tat
- upcycle
- upcycling
- waste product
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rubbishverb [ T ]
uk/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/us/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/UK informalto criticize something:
Why does everyone rubbish my ideas?
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- lashing
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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rubbishadjective
uk/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/us/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/UK informalcompletely without skill at a particular activity:
I'm rubbish at arithmetic.
You're a rubbish dancer.
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Inexperienced (of people)
- armchair
- be new to this game idiom
- be wet behind the ears idiom
- dewy-eyed
- fledgling
- game
- green
- inexperienced
- innocence
- innocent
- new
- raw
- rouseabout
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- unrefined
- unsophisticated
- untrained
- unversed
- wet
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