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dustbin

or dust bin

[ duhst-bin ]

/ ˈdʌstˌbɪn /

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noun Chiefly British.

an ashcan; garbage can.

Origin of dustbin

First recorded in 1840–50; dust + bin

Words nearby dustbin

dust whirl, dust-bath, dust-bathe, dust-mop, dust-up, dustbin, dustcart, dustcloth, duster, duster coat, dustheap

Example sentences from the Web for dustbin

Marrero himself was hardly a “cup of coffee” relic or a minor character belatedly retrieved from the dustbin of baseball history.

Havana Bids Adios to Conrado Marrero, MLB’s Oldest Player |Peter C. Bjarkman |April 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Drop your clash of civilizations references into the dustbin of history.

Duck! Reality TV Returns Us to the Dark Age of Tribal Warfare |James Poulos |December 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
And, magically, the point of no return disappeared into the dustbin of history—at least for a few months.

Bibi’s Three Steps Forward, One Back |Trita Parsi |October 11, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But the Finnish company struck a deal this month that will doom it to the dustbin of history.

Nokia's Suicide Deal with Microsoft |Dan Lyons |February 18, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

One man carried a broom and dustbin with a picture of Mubarak inside.

Egypt's Million Man March Protesters to Mubarak: Resign Now |Babak Dehghanpisheh |February 1, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
But judging from Tora's voice—it sounds really aggrieved—I think it's time we went and umpired about the dustbin.

Mrs. Maxon Protests |Anthony Hope
Domestic servants come with their baskets full of rubbish in order to empty them into the dustbin.

The Inferno |August Strindberg
He threw the cruet in the dustbin—where I found it, along with other silver—for the sake of a burglary blind.

The Wisdom of Father Brown |G. K. Chesterton
But to me the divinities of antiquity are not mere dolls to be patted superciliously on the head and then remitted to the dustbin.

Archaic England |Harold Bayley
That tidiness of yours is a mania; that way of looking upon the world as a dustbin is a disease.

The Twilight of the Souls |Louis Couperus

British Dictionary definitions for dustbin

dustbin

/ (ˈdʌstˌbɪn) /

noun

a large, usually cylindrical container for rubbish, esp one used by a household US and Canadian names: garbage can, trash can