garbage head
n.— «Berquist! That garbage head!» —by Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land , 1961. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
After our earlier conversation with Amanda in Evansville, Indiana, whose family refers to their garbage disposal as George, a listener shares his own family’s term for this device: the spoon sharpener. This is part of a complete episode...
Linda from Wichita, Kansas, thinks we need a word for that closed-mouth little smile we give to strangers on the street — not a friendly Duchenne smile, just a polite acknowledgment of the other person’s existence. She suggests the word smurm...