trash pile
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1.3
- noun
- /træʃ paɪl/
- US
:
montón de basura
- Who made that trash pile?
- found in a trash pile
Examples
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I just can't believe this! " I've been staring at the dining-room table pads for the past half hour, wondering what to do with them, which of my three piles they belong in: the apartment pile, the storage pile, the trash pile.
Fiction book (1990) -
She had a hundred different stories to explain the mystery of the missing shoe, and no matter how many times we went to that trash pile, she'd reach down with her stick and scoop up a battered shoe and look at me in that same old way and say, "Now, how come you never see a match to a shoe, wonder?"
Fiction book (2000) -
Clean up the two milk cartons... put them in the trash pile, and let's get out of here.
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Because of this, the trash pile isn't easily seen from airplanes or satellites.
Blog text (28) -
Her barefoot grandchildren periodically dump the sharp chips onto the communal trash pile just outside the village.
Academic text (2002) -
Deep, like what used to rise up out of the thickets beyond the trash pile where all those mismatched shoes lay, their leather cracking like old snakeskins in the hot sun.
Fiction book (2000) -
Carly had found it on a trash pile in perfect condition, her mind racing with the words, "the immortality of Beethoven," which she had read somewhere in a Vanity Fair magazine.
Fiction book (1995) -
Honey, you gotta clean up that trash pile in the back.
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My father had rescued the set from a trash pile in the street.
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On his way back to the tent, he passed a couple of rats fighting for scraps in a trash pile.
Synonyms
426
1.9
A heap of things put together
214
1.1
A place where people leave large amounts of rubbish
54
1.4
A large amount of things often in a messy pile
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
2.4
A pile of garbage and old things people throw away
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
2.3
A large pile of things that people have thrown away
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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
An area of land where people put rubbish
A large amount of things collected together, often in a stack
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a collection or heap of refuse' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'trash' (rubbish) with 'pile' (a heap); the compound simply names a heap made of trash. This is a regular noun–noun composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun trash pile comes from the simple image of people throwing trash into a growing pile, like bags and old things left behind a house. So, trash pile means 'a heap or collection of garbage and discarded things'.