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[ weyst-bas-kit, -bah-skit ] / ˈweɪstˌbæs kɪt, -ˌbɑ skɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wastebasket ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc. Also called wastepaper basket. Origin of wastebasketFirst recorded in 1855–60; waste + basket Words nearby wastebasketwassup, wast, wastage, waste, waste away, wastebasket, wasted, waste disposal unit, wasteful, waste gate, waste heat recovery Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wastebasketIt will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten. No One Ever Loses to Cancer|Dushka Zapata|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Beard nodded, and without another word, Kenney flung the work into the wastebasket. Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon|Robert Sam Anson|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST What did you do—go through his wastebasket and find his pay stub? The Supreme Court's Cluelessness on Gender Bias|Leslie Bennetts|June 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST Well, ultimately, the screenplay is the only part of a movie that you can fit into a wastebasket. The New Roger Ebert Takes Our Movie Quiz|Marlow Stern|January 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Not because he tried to use company money to purchase, among other items, a $1,400 wastebasket, but because he got caught. Bank of America Smackdown!|Charlie Gasparino|April 28, 2009|DAILY BEAST Let my brain go into the wastebasket for the sake of an hour or so of exhilaration? The Million Dollar Mystery|Harold MacGrath My advice is to throw this play in the wastebasket and write one about that man. Bambi|Marjorie Benton Cooke Chub often said, The first person to hit the wastebasket around here will be fired. Joan of the Journal|Helen Diehl Olds Anything like that I always take and I tear up and put in the wastebasket. Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Cannon left his fingerprints on it, dropped it into the wastebasket, and covered it with tissue paper. Hail to the Chief|Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for wastebasket
nounan open receptacle for paper and other dry litterAlso called (esp in Britain): wastepaper basket Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to wastebasketdustbin, box, repository, bowl, vessel, holder, hopper, trash can, wastepaper basket, garbage can, skip, ashcan |