Garbage in spanish
pronunciation: bɑsuɹ̩ɑ part of speech: noun
garbage = basura, birria, porquería.
Example: Some individuals are satisfied with a 50% 'hit' rate because they feel they can more quickly weed out the 'garbage' than they could compile the needed bibliography by hand.more:
» garbage bag = bolsa de basura. [Generalmente llena]
Example: The police are asking anyone 'missing' two large garbage bags filled with freshly-cut marijuana found on the side of the highway to call their office.» garbage can = cubo de la basura.
Example: Two boys said they were shooting at a garbage can but ended up hitting a 61-year-old delivery driver instead, police say.» garbage collection = recogida de basura.
Example: If the library is not to come in a poor second to such 'basic' or 'essential' services as police and garbage collection, the library's services must also be regarded as 'essential'.» garbage collector = basurero.
Example: Garbage collectors need to be physically fit, capable of driving trucks and happy to work long hours.» garbage dog = perro callejero.
Example: To make the reading more fun for the children we'll include a squib about the garbage dog from 'The Eighteenth Emergency' by Betsy Byars to put alongside a passage about mongrels from the 'World Book Encyclopedia'.» garbage dump = vertedero de basuras.
Example: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.» garbage man = basurero.
Example: I don't know about your garbage men but mine are rather huge guys with grim faces.» garbage truck = camión de la basura.
Example: Over half of the garbage trucks in Reykjavik are actually powered by methane that is siphoned from the landfill.» put out + the garbage = sacar la basura. [También put the garbage out]
Example: Why don't men hear a request to put out the garbage while they're reading a newspaper?.» take out + the garbage = sacar la basura. [También take the garbage out]
Example: Who else is going to flip the burgers, clean the resistant bomb-proof windows of the glitzy mile-high skyscrapers -- also take out the garbage, wash the dishes, park the cars, sweep up the papers in the parks?.» talk + garbage = decir tonterías, decir estupideces, decir sandeces, decir disparates, decir gilipolleces, decir chorradas, decir memeces, hablar tonterías, hablar estupideces, hablar sandeces, hablar disparates, hablar gilipolleces, hablar memeces, hablar chorradas.
Example: The reason some feminists are angry is because people like you talk garbage about us without actually listening to what we have to say.