garbage cann.
/ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ kan/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrbɪdʒ ˌkæn/ Originally and chiefly North American.
1. A container for garbage; a rubbish bin.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse
vat1534
voider1613
waste-paper box1836
dustbin1847
kid1847
waste-basket1850
scrap-box1858
waste-paper basket1859
garbage can1869
can1872
hell1872
scrap basket1872
sink tidy1881
tidy-betty1884
kitchen tidy1885
midden1890
wagger1903
W.P.B.1903
waste-bin1915
Sanibin1921
binette1922
G.I. can1929
trash can1929
trashbag1934
litter-bin1947
shitcan1948
pedal bin1951
trash-bin1955
litter-basket1958
midgie1965
bin1972
swing bin1972
tidy bin1972
dump bin1978
wheelie bin1984
binbag1986
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1868 I. 236/2 (caption) in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52, Pt. 1) X Shires, William... Garbage can or vessel.
1906 N.Y. Evening Post 23 Aug. 2 The landlords are not providing the tenants with garbage and ash cans.
2006 Dazed & Confused Dec. 145 Bus stops with legions of tags scratched into the glass, and garbage cans that pepper the empty treeless streets.
2. figurative and in figurative contexts.
a. A class or category to which miscellaneous items are assigned, esp. as a result of overgeneralization or imprecision; a catch-all.Also as a modifier, as in garbage-can diagnosis, etc.
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1911 Kentucky Med. Jrnl. 1 Jan. 58/1 That term [sc. neurasthenia] is an immense garbage can, into which everything is thrown that looks like neurasthenia.
1927 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 1 18 The great question now facing educational sociology is whether it shall be a science or a garbage can.
1985 Alcohol, Drug Abuse, & Mental Health News 11 1/3 Alzheimer's disease has become the ‘garbage can’ diagnosis to explain away unexplained mental deterioration.
2015 J. Raadschelders et al. Global Dimensions Public Admin. & Governance App. 468 When..the extension of a concept is stretched without reducing the number of characteristics, one basically uses a concept as a garbage can.
b. Something that consists of or contains worthless, inadequate, or rejected material.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > types of
eggshell1550
new nothing1577
earth?1592
shuck1851
putty medal1893
garbage can1922
1922 Christian Cent. 17 Aug. 1023/1 Arousing prejudice against foreigners and the Negro, the ‘Colonel’ says of America, ‘It is a garbage can! Not a melting pot.’
1955 Jet 3 Feb. 48 This is the garbage can of the educational system.
2019 Univ. Wire (Wake Forest, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 28 Aug. 1 Our brilliant language of commerce and global interaction is turning into a garbage can of slang and symbols.
3. colloquial.
a. A worthless or despicable person; (also) a dirty or disgusting person.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]
mesela1400
scabbardc1440
slotterbugc1440
drivel1498
sow1508
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1530
filthy1553
ketterela1572
slabberer1611
slubberdegullion1612
Grobian1621
slabberdegullion1653
slobber-chops1670
slate1718
haverel1720
slobberer1732
slummock1760
fleabag1805
slush1825
slob1876
trashbag1887
crumb1918
garbage can1925
hog1932
crud1940
sordid1959
grot1970
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1925 Simpsons' Daily Leader-Times (Kittanning, Pa.) 22 Apr. (City ed.) 7/2 You had to pin your dirty work on me! Why, you garbage can of a man, you king skunk.
1983 G. Petievich To die in Beverly Hills (1984) viii. 120 Sunnabitch is no good. He's a garbage can.
2010 @AnnetteSzczepan 9 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2019) I need to go shower. I am such a garbage can. Who sleeps until 10:30PM?
b. A person who eats excessively or indiscriminately.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton
glutton?c1225
glutc1394
globberc1400
glofferc1440
gluttoner1482
gourmanda1492
ravener1496
belly1526
golofer1529
lurcher1530
cormorant1531
flesh-fly1532
full-belly1536
belly-godc1540
flap-sauce1540
gourmander1542
gully-gut1542
locust1545
glosser1549
greedy-guts1550
hungry gut1552
belly-slave1562
fill-belly1563
grand paunch1569
belly-paunch1570
belly-swainc1571
trencher-slave1571
slapsauce1573
gorche1577
helluo1583
gormandizer1589
eat-all1598
engorger1598
guts1598
guller1604
gourmandist1607
barathrum1609
eatnell1611
snapsauce1611
Phaeacian?1614
gutling1617
overeater1621
polyphage1623
tenterbelly1628
gut-head1629
stiffgut1630
gobble-guts1632
gulist1632
polyphagian1658
fill-paunch1659
gype1662
gulchin1671
stretch-gut1673
gastrolater1694
gundy-gut1699
guttler1732
gobbler1755
trencher-hero1792
gorger1817
polyphagist1819
battenera1849
stuff-guts1875
chowhound1917
gannet1929
Billy Bunter1939
guzzle-guts1959
garbage can1963
foodaholic1965
1963 W. Saroyan Boys & Girls Together ix. 41 He..set the dish in front of the girl, lifting away her bowl of cereal and eating what was in it, and then eating what was left in the boy's bowl, too. ‘You're a garbage can,’ the boy said.
2005 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) (Nexis) 29 May d1 I'm a garbage can—I'll eat anything.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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