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English
Etymology
1948 in Canada, from garbage + -ator.
Noun
garburator (plural garburators)
- (Canada, UK) Synonym of garbage disposal.
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section III, page 28:‘[…] She burped and tried to jam the bottle into the waste-hole of the waste-disposal thing, the thingummy.’
‘Garburator,’ said Pigs Trotter. ‘I think they’re called Garburators.’
‘Garburator, that’s it. She tried to jam the bottle down the Garburator. […]’
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