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garbage dump

garbage dump noun: a landfill.

Noun

garbage dump (plural garbage dumps)

  1. A landfill
    • Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin. The cabin’s plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its roof shingled with tin cans hammered flat, so only its general shape suggested its original design1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

Synonyms of garbage dump

Forms of garbage dump

pluralgarbage dumps

Questions about garbage dump

What does garbage dump mean?
Garbage dump means a landfill.
What part of speech is garbage dump?
Garbage dump is a noun.
What is the plural of garbage dump?
The plural of garbage dump is garbage dumps.

Words near garbage dump in the dictionary

  1. garbage days
  2. garbage disposal
  3. garbage disposal unit
  4. garbage disposal units
  5. garbage disposals
  6. garbage dump
  7. garbage dumps
  8. garbage fire
  9. garbage fires
  10. garbage flies
  11. garbage fly

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