garbage disposal

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   a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage

   Synonymsdisposalelectric pig

   Broaderkitchen appliance

Questions about garbage disposal

What does garbage disposal mean?

garbage disposal means "a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage".

What is another word for garbage disposal?

Close synonyms include disposal, electric pig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garbage disposal a common word?

garbage disposal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.