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Everything you own, minus whatever you still believe in.
means Waste matter to be discarded; refuse, trash, or anything of no further use or value.
from First meant the inedible bits of a butchered animal — entrails, giblets, the offal trimmed away — before widening to cover any kitchen waste and eventually all rubbish. Its deeper roots are murky; it may be related to Anglo-French words for entrails or sheaf-bindings, but no one can say for certain. What's clear is the trajectory: from the parts of a carcass no one wanted, to a word for anything no one wants.
- original meaning
- Animal innards sold by butchers, not trash
- garbage in
- Computing term 'GIGO' coined in the 1950s
- NYC daily waste
- Produces over 10,000 tons of trash daily
- word cousin
- Related to 'garble', originally meaning to sift