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dust-bin, ˈdustbin
1. A bin or receptacle for the dust, ashes, and other refuse of a house.
1848Dickens Dombey xvii, The Captain's nosegay was swept into the dust-bin next morning. 1895Parkes Health 37 The old-fashioned brick dustbin.
fig. and attrib.1901Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 23 Feb. 234/2 The Drama of the Dustbin. This phrase was not coined by me... Mr. Clement Scott issued it into our currency as a description of ‘Mr. & Mrs. Daventry’. 1930C. Dixon This Way to Paradise i. 29 Wasn't it just one of the usual dust-bin experiences? Ibid. 30 The whole of existence is an affair of dust-bins. 1931R. Graves Poems 1926–1930 53 He leads the sick words into parliament To rule a dust-bin world with deep-sleep phrases. 1940Times 25 Apr. 8/7 When two..men were summoned..for removing refuse from dustbins without authority..solicitor for the prosecution said, ‘This offence is known as ‘dustbin totting’.’ 1958E. H. Carr Socialism in one Country I. iv. 148 Trotsky relegated his defeated opponents to the dustbin of history. 1959Times 23 May 5/6 Plainly the Ulysses of James Joyce is the great source of the modern dustbin drama.
b. Special Comb. dustbinman, a refuse collector; = binman 2.
1969TV Times 18 Sept. 8/2 He recited the formal caution: ‘The *dustbinman never solicits gratuities, never ‘tots’ or sells scrap on the side, and he is never discourteous’. 1982Times 9 Dec. 7/7 Rubbish continued to pile up on the streets and pavements of Paris yesterday as the dustbinmen's strike entered its fifth day.
2. A gun-turret of an aircraft, esp. the one beneath the fuselage. slang.
1934Flight 15 Feb. 160/1 Our photographer..took his photographs from the ‘dustbin’, the retractable and rotatable turret for a Lewis gun beneath the fuselage. 1942Gen 1 Sept. 14/1 The rear gunner's turret is the ‘dust bin’. 1967C. H. Barnes Shorts Aircraft 377 Here there had originally been mounted a twin-Browning F.N. 25 retractable ventral turret..; this ‘dust-bin’ turret was deleted from early production Stirlings.
Add:[1.] [b.] dustbin liner, a bin-liner (see bin n. 8) for use inside a dustbin.
1976S. Wales Echo 26 Nov. 20/7 Black dustbin bags—which can be used on their own or as *dustbin liners—are far more hygienic and convenient. 1984P. Barker Blow your House Down xi. 70 And all I want her to do is put on a little bit of plastic... Dustbin liner. Anything. |