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Dustbin   /dˈəstbɪn/   Listen
Dustbin

noun
1.
A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.  Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, ashcan, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can, wastebin.






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"Dustbin" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps, should you be a woman; the masculine point of view which governs our lives, which sets the standard, which establishes Whitaker's Table of Precedency, which has become, I suppose, since the war half a phantom to many men and women, which soon, one may hope, will be laughed into the dustbin where the phantoms go, the mahogany sideboards and the Landseer prints, Gods and Devils, Hell and so forth, leaving us all with an intoxicating sense ...
— Monday or Tuesday • Virginia Woolf

... to be called a human habitation—more like the den of some wild animal—almost the only furniture of which was a filthy iron bedstead, a wooden box to serve for table and chair, while an old tin did duty as a dustbin. ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth



Words linked to "Dustbin" :   bin



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