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garbo (countable and uncountable, plural garbos)

1. (countable, Australia, informal) A rubbish collector; a garbage man.
   • 1986, Emily George, Merri Lee: A Feminist Fantasy, page 124:

     Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning.

   • 1998, Hall Greenland, Red Hot: The Life & Times of Nick Origlass, 1908-1996, page 253:

     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.

   • 2010, Zana Fraillon, Monstrum House: Locked In, unnumbered page:

     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.

   • 2010, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia′s Toughest Cop, page 350:

     The priest would bring salvation while the garbo took the rubbish.

2. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable, colloquial, derogatory) Garbage; something considered worthless.
   • 2012, Mickael Taddeo, Gabriel's Mountain, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 229:

     "Any quartz in the Mountain?" / "Just garbo quartz, not enough to produce any electrical fields." / "No disruption in the magnetic field?" / "No, sir."

   • 2016, Clare Revell, Violets in February, Pelican Book Group, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2022 March 19, Dan Clarendon, “'Hogwarts Legacy' Will Reportedly Welcome Transgender Characters — You Hear That, J.K.?”, in Distractify‎, archived from the original on 22 April 2022:

     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."

   • 2022 December 7, Mike Bloom, quoting Sami Layadi, “'Survivor 43's' Sami Layadi Explains Why He Never Went After Cody and Jesse”, in Parade‎, archived from the original on 8 December 2022:

     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!"

同意語

• bin man (UK)
• dustman (UK)
• garbage collector (US, Canada)
• garbage man (Australia, US, Canada)
• refuse collector (UK)
• sanitation engineer (US, Canada)
• trashman (US, Canada)
• See Thesaurus:garbage collector

アナグラム

• Bargo, Bogar, Bogra, Gabor, gobar