I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rubbish/waste bin
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The rubbish bin is full.
consign sb/sth to the dustbin/scrapheap/rubbish heap etc British English
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Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.
rubbish dump BrE, garbage dump American English
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The fire probably started in a rubbish dump.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
absolute
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All those stories about Sandra being mistaken for Lady Lucan are absolute rubbish as far as I am concerned.
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Male speaker Absolute rubbish ! - it's the best amateur-professional show.
full
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My wife treats ours like a second handbag - it's full of rubbish .
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I went into the garden and I found the wheelbarrow was full of rubbish .
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He kicked himself when he discovered it behind two large metal waste bins full of rubbish and old cardboard.
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The black sacks full of fetid rubbish that are to be seen in Lambeth do not meet the eye on entering Wandsworth.
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The entrance is a brief concrete patio with three smelly skips about four feet high and full of rubbish .
old
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Instead of being ashamed of our antiques, he is proud of the old rubbish !
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Tell me a load of old rubbish !
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The sourness of old rubbish fires hangs in the air.
■ NOUN
bin
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Yesterday we found a baby that some one had thrown into a rubbish bin in the street.
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Oracle has denied knowledge of the detective agency's methods, which included sifting through rubbish bins .
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Logic insists that Sebastian should have set a match to this vile document and consigned it to the rubbish bin .
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Even the rubbish bins were empty.
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The flakes of mud would have been carefully removed and put in the rubbish bin in the kitchen.
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Beneath the window is a bilingual rubbish bin with a spelling mistake.
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Most people think of waste as being the contents of the domestic rubbish bin .
disposal
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There should be some kind of rubbish disposal facility and you need proper campsites for the trekkers, with camp wardens.
dump
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They've agreed to postpone development of a rubbish dump for at least 10 years.
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Here there was a natural beach, bordered by a thin band of scrub: beyond it was the council rubbish dump .
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Rubbish raid: Thieves broke into a rubbish dump near Ripon.
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But over the past century we have made it into a rubbish dump .
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They searched for the money-filled teddy bear and were told it had been tossed on to a rubbish dump .
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With such vandals for subjects, it was fitting that they chose the Adam's Pass rubbish dump as their study site.
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Having escaped from their field, two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump .
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People have become ever more hostile to the idea of living near a rubbish dump .
heap
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What are possibly the rubbish heaps of Our Mutual Friend loomed even larger in fact than they do in fiction.
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He was about to be thrown back on the bloody rubbish heap , or worse.
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The habitat of the ink cap is in grass, rubbish heaps and on disturbed soil.
household
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Finding things to make out of unwanted household rubbish will always be technically difficult.
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Furthermore, mixing up used disposables with the rest of the household rubbish makes it difficult to recycle them afterwards.
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This is particularly true of household rubbish .
skip
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Did she take it with her when she went to the rubbish skip or dash to a stationer's and buy it?
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At the comer stood a green plastic rubbish skip , presumably the one where Ruggiero's letter had been left.
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Apparently a lorry carrying a rubbish skip was hi-jacked in nearby Pomeroy several hours ago and the driver held at gunpoint.
tip
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The device is being used at landfill rubbish tips and can tell scientists within minutes precisely what's going on underground.
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During those sixty seconds of biological time, Modern Man has made a rubbish tip of Paradise.
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Trashing lives At night on the city rubbish tip in La Paz, strange things start to happen.
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Municipal rubbish tips are some of the most important feeding areas for gulls, crows, vultures and kites.
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Jones had tried to cover his tracks by disposing of some of the apparatus on a rubbish tip .
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The time has come to find a solution to prevent Britain becoming one big, dangerous rubbish tip .
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With this rubbish tip of information she then came to me to ask how she could write it up into a dissertation.
■ VERB
clear
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Is the roof space clean and clear of rubbish ?
collect
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But new measures have been taken, and sweeping machines constantly ply the main streets collecting rubbish .
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The districts collect the rubbish ... take responsibility for housing ... and look after certain environmental services.
consign
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Logic insists that Sebastian should have set a match to this vile document and consigned it to the rubbish bin.
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The contents were immediately consigned to the rubbish tip and the girl forcibly removed in the direction of the bath huts.
put
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The flakes of mud would have been carefully removed and put in the rubbish bin in the kitchen.
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All the reject packaging was put into the special rubbish barrel in case we needed it for some other purpose.
talk
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Don't talk rubbish , girl!
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People who talk about authentic costume are talking rubbish .
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Behave like everyone else. Talk a lot of rubbish in the right tone of voice.
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I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish .
throw
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Do not throw rubbish on to an open fire in the living room.
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Yesterday we found a baby that some one had thrown into a rubbish bin in the street.
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One small town has stopped householders throwing out garden rubbish .
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And he'd thrown that rubbish out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
talk sense/rubbish/nonsense etc
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A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
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Don't talk rubbish, girl!
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He had already tried to talk sense into Jotan, and had got nowhere.
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It was easy to laugh in that snug house, talk nonsense half the night, drink.
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People who talk about authentic costume are talking rubbish.
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Quinn realized that he was talking nonsense.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What did you think of his speech?'' "I thought it was rubbish !''
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Don't forget to put the rubbish out before you go to bed.
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I don't know why you're watching that film, it's a load of old rubbish .
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I rescued this table from a rubbish dump.
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If you believe all this rubbish , you'll believe anything.
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The dustmen collect the rubbish on Wednesdays.
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There was rubbish and broken glass all over the grass.
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Two stolen paintings have been found dumped in a rubbish bin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But many places hate importing other people's rubbish .
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Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it's been picked up by the dust-cart.
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Is the roof space clean and clear of rubbish ?
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It's a load of rubbish .
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The majors were quite polite and everything, it wasn't like they were saying it was a load of rubbish .
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The most ubiquitous evidence was the piles of fly-tipped rubbish whenever we stopped to look for birds or flowers.
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Then nine tenths of the rubbish they've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He did so by rubbishing the only viable goal of any Liberal Democrat election campaign - a hung parliament.
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I've done my share of rubbishing believe me!
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It is time we began to ask who are these women who rubbish men.
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On the higher literary level it rubbished quite a bit of Hardy and much of D.H.Lawrence.
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The government will be claiming that its reform of legal aid was a triumph for justice and any dissent will be rubbished.