trash heap
3
2.4
- noun
- /træʃ hip/
- US
:
montón de basura
- Hands appear at the back door of a shop, hurling a clutch of hoops towards the trash heap.
- rescued from a trash heap
- trash heap of history
- next to a trash heap
The fly did not create the trash heap, right?
- The fly did not create the trash heap, right?
- So we're thinking maybe life went back that far, but we don't find any huge trash heaps.
- It's a lot easier to rebuild something right now than trying to salvage the current trash heap.
- To thank the neighbors for maintaining their own piece of property that overlooks our property for not continuing to let it look like a huge trash heap.
- So we actually find these places that are repositories, but I'd like the trash heap example and I think of Sanford and Son, Space in space.
- So we actually find these places that have our repositories, but I'd like the trash heap example and I think of Sanford and Son space in space.
Examples
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The can leapt up the trash heap, spinning lopsided like a spazzed-out top.
Fiction book (1995) -
A little trash heap gathers beneath the porch.
Fiction book (1995) -
I done found this in a trash heap.
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Now it's more like a trash heap.
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You find our shoes in trash heaps.
Fiction book (1994) -
I have to get those two big ones I found over in Sullivan's trash heap.
Fiction book (1992) -
As soon as she pulls in the driveway, I'm heading for the barn for the wire, then out to Sullivan's trash heap.
Fiction book (1992) -
But De Leon sees the trash heaps differently—as archaeological sites packed with data.
Academic text (2011) -
Photo (color): Blue-and-white tin-glazed ceramics known as delftware were found in the trash heap behind the Coffeehouse.
Academic text (2011) -
The children discovered old toys while digging through the trash heap behind their school.
Synonyms
214
1.1
A place where people leave large amounts of rubbish
54
3.5
A place where old cars and metal are kept to sell for parts or recycling
53
1.1
A pile of things put on top of each other in no order
9
1.0
A place where people take and leave large amounts of waste
7
4.0
A place where people throw away unwanted things, often illegally
3
4.2
A messy pile of old broken things people throw away
3
4.5
A piece of land where people throw away trash without control
2
2.7
A messy heap of old things that people throw away
1
1.3
A heap of thrown away things like paper and bottles
1
2.3
A large pile of things that people have thrown away
1
2.1
A place where people put waste to be taken away
1
2.7
A pile of waste and old things
1
5.4
A pile of old broken metal and other things kept to be thrown away
1
2.0
A large open area where people leave trash
A pile of rubbish left outside in one place
A pile of dust and old rubbish thrown away
A piece of land where people dump waste from homes and factories
An area of land where people put rubbish
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Morphology
The meaning 'a pile of refuse' is directly and transparently composed from 'trash' (rubbish) + 'heap' (a pile), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily derive the MWE meaning. This noun+noun compositional pattern is common and the constituents are concrete and frequent, reinforcing its predictability across languages and learner backgrounds.
Etymology
The compound noun trash heap comes from a simple picture: trash means rubbish or broken things and heap means a large pile of things. So trash heap refers to 'a pile of garbage or discarded material'.