rubbish

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈrʌbɪʃ/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈrʌbɪʃ/ or /ˈrə-/

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• Hyphenation: rub‧bish

Noun

Singular rubbish

Plural none

Rubbish

1. (uncountable) Rubbish is unwanted things such as plastic bags, half-eaten food, and broken toys.
   • Synonyms: waste, garbage and trash
   • Antonym: treasure

   She's always throwing her left-over food on the ground, and not in the rubbish bin.

   People drive by and dump all manner of rubbish.

2. (uncountable) (slang) Rubbish is a stupid or wrong idea.

   You're going to sing? Rubbish! Total rubbish! You can't sing.

   Oh, I don't watch TV. It's a load of rubbish.

   He was tired and angry and didn't want to listen to his friend talking rubbish.

Verb

Plain form rubbish

Third-person singular rubbishes

Past tense rubbished

Past participle rubbished

Present participle rubbishing

1. (transitive) If you rubbish something, you say it's bad or stupid.

   It's not very good, but I didn't want to completely rubbish it.