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Browsing page 1 of words meaning junk, garbage, trash, useless items (7 words total)
The slang words in this thesaurus category appear below the table of contents.
Where does this category appear in the slang thesaurus?
- Things
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- junk, garbage, trash, useless items
- See also a mess
- See also unimportant, useless
What slang words have this meaning?
The definitions of these slang words appear below the list.
- beermat – bin – coaster – scrap yard – shelfware – shovelware – tat
Full definitions of all the slang words listed above:
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beermat
noun
- unwanted optical media (e.g. CDs) received as junk mail. For example, installation CDs for AOL.
In the 90s, AOL was notorious for mass-mailing beer mats.
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Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
- a CD or DVD that was unsuccessfully burned, and is then useless except for as a beer mat.
That cheap DVD-creation software that came with my new drive is constantly making beermats.
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Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
notes
- In the US, the term "coaster" is used more often.
Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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bin
verb - transitive
- to throw away, i.e. put into a trash bin.
I've been binning all of her submissions to the newsletter.
Citation from [erlang-questions] mailing list, Joe Armstrong, 24 Jan 2013 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: junk, garbage, trash, useless items.
Last edited on Jan 24 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 08 2012.
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coaster
noun
- a CD or DVD that was unsuccessfully burned, and is then useless except for as a coaster.
That cheap DVD-creation software that came with my new drive keeps making coasters.
- See more words with the same meaning: broken.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
- unwanted optical media (e.g. CDs) received as junk mail. For example, installation CDs for AOL.
In the 90s, AOL was notorious for mass-mailing coasters.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
- See more words with the same meaning: junk, garbage, trash, useless items.
Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
verb - transitive
- to ruin writable optical media via a write ("burn") attempt which fails.
My computer's so slow I coastered five CDs last week.
Last edited on Dec 15 2010. Submitted by Phil from Berkeley, CA, USA on Aug 16 2002.
notes
- Regarding the noun senses of this term, "beermat" is (allegedly) used in the UK.
Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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scrap yard
- junk or salvage yards
I'm going down to the scraps yard to get a fender for my pickup truck.
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Last edited on Apr 30 2005. Submitted by Dave from Aurora, IL, USA on Apr 30 2005.
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shelfware
noun - uncountable
- software that was purchased or written, but never used. Software that "ends up on a shelf."
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Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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shovelware
noun - uncountable
- low-quality software. Often collected and sold on low-priced CDs or DVDs.
Those $10 software CD-ROMs just contain a bunch of shovelware.
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Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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tat
noun
- tattoo.
Citation from "Meet Juan Doe", Raines (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 2 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: abbreviations (list of).
- See more words with the same meaning: tattoos (related to).
Last edited on Dec 15 2012. Submitted by Leslie from WA, USA on Jun 10 1998.
- breast. Variant of "tit".
Look at the tats on her!
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- See more words with the same meaning: breast, breasts.
Last edited on Nov 20 2010. Submitted by Fred B. from Ann Arbor, MI, USA on Feb 05 2003.
- potentially useful items others might consider worthless.
Look at all that tat.
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Last edited on Feb 19 2011. Submitted by Anonymous on Apr 19 2010.
- stuff.
Have you got all your tat with you?
- See more words with the same meaning: unspecified item(s), 'stuff', 'thing(s)'.
Last edited on Feb 19 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 19 2011.
verb
- To tat - to go out hunting for and collecting useful items from bins, roadsides, etc.
"I'm going tatting"Last edited on Apr 19 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Apr 19 2010.
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