OriginClipping of garbage + -o (colloquialising suffix).
- Australia, countable, informalA rubbish collector; a garbage man.
“Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning.”
“The referendum papers, accompanied by a strong statement of Council′s position, was to be letterboxed by the Council′s “garbos” (rubbish collectors) and inspectors on a Thursday and collected by volun”
“As far as Jasper was concerned, his mum being a garbo was pretty cool. She got to drive a truck and be home in time to take his little sisters to school. Before she got the job as a rubbish collector,”
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