Meaning & use
rubbish
Waste material that is discarded because it is no longer wanted or needed.
See it in a sentence
She took the rubbish out to the bin before the collectors arrived on Tuesday.
The park was littered with rubbish after the weekend festival ended.
A note on using this word
Rubbish is chiefly British English; American English favors 'garbage' or 'trash.' Informally it can also mean nonsense, as in 'that's rubbish.'
Words with a similar meaning
garbagetrashwaste
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Another way to use it
2. adjective
British informal: of very poor quality.
He said the film was rubbish and left before it ended.
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