wheelie
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4.5
- noun
- /ˈwiːli/
- UK
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contenedor con ruedas
- Make sure to roll your wheelie bin to the curb on collection day.
And Alfie Armstrong and Sonny Webster, I know at the moment are both using wheelie bins as squat racks.
- And Alfie Armstrong and Sonny Webster, I know at the moment are both using wheelie bins as squat racks.
- If you are from So, a purple wheelie bin means that your bins are collected and emptied by the City of Liverpool Council.
Examples
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Remember to take the wheelie cart with me to work (which means dragging it along on our morning walk of approximately three miles) so that I will be able to transport the heavy winter vegetables on my own.
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It's time for me to bring some good governance to the wheelie bin deficit.
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If you are from So, a purple wheelie bin means that your bins are collected and emptied by the City of Liverpool Council.
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The firefighters were called to a wheelie-bin fire, which is believed to have been started deliberately, and quickly extinguished it.
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The garbage truck picked up the wheelie bin and emptied it into the back.
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After the storm, we found our wheelie bin had been blown into the neighbor's yard.
Synonyms
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1.1
A large round bin for holding rubbish until someone collects it
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8.0
A large wheeled plastic bin for holding household trash by the curb
How Big
- UK
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4.5
119
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
wheelie = wheelie bin (semi-transparent) = wheel + ie
The form comes from a clipped compound ('wheelie bin') ultimately built from 'wheel' + '-ie', so the relation to 'wheel' is clear but the clipping to mean 'bin' can obscure the sense.
Etymology
Wheelie for the rubbish bin comes from the common word wheel plus the friendly ending -ie, and it began as the phrase wheelie bin to mean a 'bin' with wheels, so the name simply means a bin you can roll.