rubbishnoun/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

• 1

  Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

  • The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
  • What traſh is Rome? / What Rubbiſh and what Offall? when it ſerues / For the baſe matter, to illuminate / So vile a thing as Cæsar.
• 2

  An item, or items, of low quality.

  • Much of what they sell is utter rubbish.
  • [W]e may add that publications of this nature always contain much rubbiſh to make up the bulk; for to produce a neat collection of true wit, requires talents and judgment that would ſcarcely ſtoop to the taſk.
• 3

  Nonsense.

  • Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?
  • I ſhall […] lay out of my way the whole bede-roll of citations and precedents which they have produced, that heterogeneous heap of rubbiſh, which is only calculated to confound your Lordſhips, and miſlead the argument.
• 4

  obsoleteDebris or ruins of buildings; rubble.

  • That Antichriſt is a man exerciſing a kingdome, the head of the vniuerſall Apoſtaſie, […] the Romane monarchie being diuided and fallen downe, out of the rubbiſhes whereof, he is by litle & litle riſen & increaſed, thorow the power and forcible working of Sathan, […]
  • E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, […]

rubbishadj/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

• 1

  Exceedingly bad; awful.

  • This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.
  • Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.

rubbishintj/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

• 1

  Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

  • - The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson. - Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football.
• 2

  Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

  • Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!
  • Rubbish, sir, rubbish! Pestilent and pernicious rubbish! An honest man must consider what he owes to his name and his rank. That is the first consideration.

rubbishverb/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

• 1

  To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.

  • In my judgment, it is not Christian—I think that is the proper way to put it—to rubbish the leaders of our trade union movements, both employers' and workers'. [...] The employers are quite right in rubbishing this section. The recently retired Chief Ombudsman rubbished it. The insurance guild, not exactly known as a militant trade union until recently, has rubbished it. Twenty-nine leaders in our community have rubbished it.
  • We're messing around at work, the three of us, getting ready to go home and rubbishing each other's five best side one track ones of all time [...]
• 2

  To litter.

  • Speaking at today's (Tuesday) press conference to announce details of the show, Chairman of the Steering Committee, Mr Cheng Chun-ping urged members of the public to sustain their keep clean efforts and to let the message of the campaign slogan -- "There is never any excuse to rubbish your home" stride across the new Millennium.
  • In the 1970s there was a hugely successful campaign using the slogan: "You wouldn't rubbish your home. Australia's your home. Don't rubbish Australia." The adverts compared tossing table scraps on to the carpet with throwing food packaging from a car. It worked.