n. 1 refuse, waste, debris, rubble, detritus, litter, garbage, sweepings, dross, dregs, residue, leftovers, remnants, lees, scraps, fragments, leavings, residuum, junk, rejects, Chiefly US trash Slang chiefly US dreck Private companies are now contracted to remove household rubbish weekly 2 (stuff and) nonsense, balderdash, moonshine, gibberish, gobbledegook or gobbledygook, tommy-rot, bunkum, trash, garbage, twaddle, Colloq rot, flapdoodle, crap, hokum, codswallop, bosh, piffle, hooey, bunk, malarkey, poppycock, boloney or baloney, eyewash, hogwash, bilge-water, bull, Scots havers, Brit tosh, gammon, US a crock, horse feathers, gurry, Slang rot, Brit (a load of (old)) cobblers, Taboo slang bullshit, horseshit, US a crock of shit What she told you about how I treated her is absolute rubbish
v. 3 criticize, attack, destroy, Colloq clobber, pan, Chiefly US trash, Slang jump on, Chiefly US and Canadian bad-mouth, jump all over In his latest book he rubbishes the newspaper that had given his previous book a bad review