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Definition of "kerbside" []

  • The side of the road, along which a kerb runs. (noun)

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Use "kerbside" in a sentence
  • "Mongo: Adventures In Trash is a new book by Ted Both, a South African who moved to NYC and furnished his apartment with goodies found in kerbside trash ( "Mongo" in NYC picker-parlance), then chronicled his adventures with Manhattan's trashers, divers and pickers."
  • "And yes, being smaller than a Prius is an advantage in European towns and cities, where parallel parking on the kerbside is the norm (and not usually in marked bays, so the smaller the car the more spaces it will fit into)."
  • "So I could put the rat in the general rubbish bin, but that's not collected for a week and two days (because of the bank holiday), and I can only speculate on the state of the corpse by then, or I could classify it as food waste when it would only have two days to decompose before it's collected, or spilt on the kerbside which is what the 'rubbish operatives', for once aptly named, prefer to do."
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