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garbage dumps

garbage dumps is the plural of garbage dump.

Meaning of garbage dump

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

Questions about garbage dumps

What is garbage dumps the plural of?
Garbage dumps is the plural of garbage dump.

Words near garbage dumps in the dictionary

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

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