Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of a society or culture by examining or analyzing its refuse.
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- noun The anthropological study of society through
refuse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of a society by analyzing its garbage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I truly hope that his doctorate in garbology works out for him.
Think Progress » New poll finds more Americans in favor of eliminating the filibuster. 2010
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"It's called garbology," Northern professor Dave Grettler said.
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LAMB: You build a whole chapter around Valentine and Bill, and we haven't got enough time to go into it, but basically, the message I got was that Bill was a janitor and he dealt in garbology, meaning he went around and found documents in the Boeing office over here in Virginia ...
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He's the father of "garbology", the study of garbage to research someone's life, and claims the CIA copied his techniques.
Expecting Rain 2009
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Junk science jokes aside, wouldn't garbology be a much cheaper and more accurate measure of prosperity than satellite imaging of city lights?
From Poverty to Prosperity Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But this garbology doesn't solve the most perplexing mystery to neatnik office cleaners: How can some people be so lazy.
Cleaning Staffs Keep 2008
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The usual activities of this family are far from normal, and include recreational surveillance and garbology the science of hunting through garbage.
Review: The Spellman Files & Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz 2008
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The usual activities of this family are far from normal, and include recreational surveillance and garbology the science of hunting through garbage.
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And with the way humans interact with that, so she took courses in human waste and garbology.
Something Unpredictable Barbara Chepaitis 2003
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And with the way humans interact with that, so she took courses in human waste and garbology.
Something Unpredictable Barbara Chepaitis 2003
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