wastebasket
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- noun
- /ˈweɪstˌbæskɪt/
- US
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papelera
- I threw the crumpled paper into the wastebasket beside my desk.
And it's just meat, a hunk of meat that is thrown in the medical wastebasket.
- And it's just meat, a hunk of meat that is thrown in the medical wastebasket.
- And also that the the Milky Way is like a wastebasket that collected all the space trash over the billions of years that elapsed since the first stars formed.
Examples
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I was snooping around Tex's room and came across this in the wastebasket.
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I wrap the apple core in my napkin and toss it in the wastebasket.
Fiction book (1990) -
Kid, grab a wastebasket, please.
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Throw it in the wastebasket.
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So, what's it doing in the bottom of the wastebasket in my office?
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Then he checked the purse one last time and dropped it into the wastebasket.
Fiction book (1995) -
Did you empty the wastebaskets?
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There's a wastebasket beside the desk.
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One day she simply threw everything into a wastebasket and walked determinedly upstairs to the photographer's studio.
Fiction book (1997) -
With that, Lou tossed his Styrofoam cup into a nearby wastebasket and walked out of the room.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A container where people put waste to be taken away
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A container with a lid for storing or throwing away things
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A container for holding rubbish until it is collected
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A bin with a lid that holds household waste until someone takes it away
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A container for holding things like bottles or paper
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A container for household rubbish
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A container for holding rubbish until it is taken away
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A bin with an open top for throwing away paper and small rubbish
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A large round bin for holding rubbish until someone collects it
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A container with an open top for small trash like paper
A small open container for throwing away paper and other small rubbish
A joke name for a wastebasket where unwanted papers go
A bin for rubbish kept until it is collected
A bin in public places where people put trash
A bin in public places for people to put rubbish in
A bin in public places where people put rubbish
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Etymology
Wastebasket is made from two clear words: waste ('rubbish') and basket ('a container you carry things in'). So a wastebasket is simply a basket for rubbish, which is why it means a small open container for paper and other trash.