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basura

rubbish

noun bah-SOO-rah Less Common

Also means

trash

Usage Note

Basura means rubbish or garbage, both the material and the container: cubo de basura (rubbish bin), camión de la basura (bin lorry). Colloquially it is used as an insult ('trash') or to dismiss something as worthless. Basurero is the rubbish dump or the refuse collector.

Examples

"Por favor, saca la basura."

Natural Translation

Please take out the rubbish.

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