WordNet
n. an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter [syn: junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile, trash pile, refuse heap]
Usage examples of "garbage heap".
Thrown across the garbage heap with no regard for the people they'd once been, a hand's worth of them.
With a desolate sigh, he sat down on the foot of the garbage heap, setting Muragh beside him.
When we got to the garbage heap, Antonio uncovered Peter and cleaned him off.
This vast garbage heap was her enemy, and not only did it hold her prisoner, but it waved her friend before her eyes like a puppet.
But that night the torches and urn fires revealed the vast square to be a vast garbage heap.
Calandre hadn't actually tried to turn him into a garbage heap, but the spells were similar and when he was feeling bitter he said it that way.
Dozens of them, circling warily now that one of their number lay in a trembling-wet garbage heap of its own innards.
The garbage heap of Jokertown had opened up and emptied itself into the streets.
It was more a matter of being made aware of certain things, of having them thrust upon my consciousness: a discarded bottle, rolling down a garbage heap.