bin liner
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1.5
- noun
- /bɪn ˈlaɪnə/
- UK
:
bolsa de basura
- Now comes the graft—start digging with the pickaxe to loosen the earth, then shovel it out onto the bin liner to form a pile of earth.
And before my time and they told me on a Saturday morning, I had two bin liners.
- And before my time and they told me on a Saturday morning, I had two bin liners.
- Then it looked like what was a black bag, you know, a black bin liner that landing the road.
Examples
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Half an hour later and four bin liners later, it is now time to do all of the washing up and put it in the dishwasher.
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Give me another bin liner.
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They're all going in bin liners.
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I collect snotty tissues from the back of our local cold and virus research center; I have hundreds of bin liners full of them.
Blog text (27) -
My hands were always in bowls of dirty water, washing plates or tying knots in black bin liners full of rubbish.
Academic text (2007) -
We buy paper compost bin liners to make the task of cleaning the bin less gross, but the cost of the liners adds up, so if we had a surplus of paper shopping bags, I would be happy to save myself an expense.
Blog text (21) -
I always keep a few extra bin liners under the kitchen sink for easy clean-up.
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Please put the waste in the bin liner to keep the trash clean and contained.
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After cleaning the garage, I filled several bin liners with old papers and rubbish.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thin bag made of plastic for carrying or storing things
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3.4
A material put inside something to protect it and keep it clean
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1.0
A strong plastic bag used to hold and carry garbage
A strong plastic bag used to hold household waste
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a plastic bag placed inside a bin to keep it clean' is directly and transparently built from 'bin' (a receptacle for waste) + 'liner' (a material layer that shields an inner surface). This straightforward noun–noun compounding pattern is common across languages and follows regular compositional logic, so a B1 learner knowing both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Bin liner is a plastic bag you put inside a bin. The word liner shows the idea: the bag 'keeps the bin clean' and 'holds waste', so the phrase means a bag used to collect rubbish and make the bin easy to empty.