garbage vs tailings

garbage

noun
  • Food waste material of any kind. 

  • An easy shot. 

  • A place or receptacle for waste material. 

  • Something or someone worthless. 

  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. 

  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

adj
  • bad, crap, shitty 

tailings

noun
  • The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing. 

  • The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation. 

How often have the words garbage and tailings occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )