Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. An electric device in a kitchen drain that gets rid of food waste by shredding it to tiny bits that wash down.
WordNet
n. a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage [syn: disposal, electric pig]
Usage examples of "garbage disposal".
Not like having y'son run away from home, and steal the garbage disposal while he's at it.
Sometimes he would cough the pills out of his mouth into his cupped hand and put them in food scraps he would later scrape down the garbage disposal.
Mostly I wrote about whatever little things had lately filled my days-a trip to the post office, the joy of having a garbage disposal for the first time, the glories of the American motel.
You could have a garbage disposal system that paid for itself by reclaiming the constituent elements of everything fed into it and returning them as ingots of metal and barrels of crude organics.
He'd found an empty compartment near the garbage disposal and assembled the men there.
Concern yourself with that, not with street repair and garbage disposal in a dusty town on the Sendarian plain.
I carried bowls to the sink and scraped artichoke leaves into the garbage disposal.