n. 1 rubbish, debris, refuse, fragments, odds and ends, US and Canadian trash, Colloq junk The room was strewn with food wrappers, cigarette butts, and other litter 2 brood, issue, offspring, young Note the differences in the young of the same litter 3 stretcher, palanquin or palankeen, sedan chair The potentate was borne in on a litter carried by four huge Nubians
v. 4 clutter, strew, scatter The streets were littered with bricks and broken glass