"piece of garbage" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-piece of garbage.wav [US] Forms: pieces of garbage [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|pieces of garbage}} piece of garbage (plural pieces of garbage)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, garbage.
    Sense id: en-piece_of_garbage-en-noun-JzLkPQnb
  2. (derogatory) A bad person or thing; an object of poor quality. Tags: derogatory Synonyms: piece of crap, piece of junk, piece of shit, piece of trash, jerk, trash
    Sense id: en-piece_of_garbage-en-noun-cYvvnQ4p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83

Inflected forms

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