1. garlic - Noun
2. garlic - Verb
A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.
A kind of jig or farce.
Source: Webster's dictionaryVulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Cyril Connolly
Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. Thomas Pynchon
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. Anthony Bourdain
Love did not grow any garlic. Armenian Proverb
The garlic said to the onion: 'you stink.' Arabic Proverb
Eat leeks in march, garlic in may, all the rest of the year the doctors may play. English Proverb