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garbaggio en · NOUN

Etymology

Pseudo-Italianism, derived from English garbage + Italian -aggio (“-age”).

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, humorous, slang, uncountable) Garbage.
    • “Oh, no,” Henry returned, “none of that garbaggio. Speaking of drinks, Eloise, do I get another one?” 1980, Caleb Carr, Casing the Promised Land, Harper & Row, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 13:
    • There was a widely shared Vox article earlier this year about a writer who replaced her go-to bra after a decade of use with what was billed by the brand as the same bra. But when the new one showed up it turned out to be garbaggio in several fatal ways (flimsier material, poorly attached clasps, etc.). 2023 June 13, “Is the death of thrifting upon us??”, in Blackbird Spyplane, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2024:
    • Everything about it is flawed and given Blizz laziness, simple increase of slots mitigates a lot of this garbaggio 2026 January 11, Bathroom, Blizzard Forums, archived from the original on 05 May 2026:
    • Fallen Kingdom gave us Indoraptors, basically Indominus but smaller, faster and social. By then, we'd fully lost the plot; that movie was garbaggio. I didn't watch Dominion. 2025 July 1, Barry Petchesky, “Just Give Me Some Normal Damn Dinosaurs”, in Defector, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2025:
    • Of course, the file formats will not necessarily transfer well, except for ASCII. That is, an Illustrator file from the Mac will be garbaggio on the UNIX side. However, you can transfer things like PostScript files and such. 1993 June 3, Marc Johnson <marc@popcbr.rockefeller.edu>, “Re: Mac / UNIX interoperability”, in comp.sys.mac.apps (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 05 May 2026:
    • 2. After the shampoo of a lifetime, what do you do with those pesky hair balls clogging your drain? a Put 'em at the bottom of the garbaggio. Clean pipes = peace of mind 2020 December 14, Starr Bowenbank, “We know what kind of pie you'd be based on the truly unremarkable stuff that happens in your day”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 269, number 5, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 12:

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