wastebasket
Noun
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Noun
wastebasket (plural wastebaskets)
- A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
- See also Thesaurus:waste bin
wastebasket (wastebaskets, present participle wastebasketing; past and past participle wastebasketed)
- (transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.
- ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography
- I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
- ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography
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