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[ duhst-bin ] / ˈdʌstˌbɪn / SEE SYNONYMS FOR dustbin ON THESAURUS.COM
Origin of dustbinFirst recorded in 1840–50; dust + bin Words nearby dustbinDüsseldorf, dust, dust ball, dust-bath, dust-bathe, dustbin, Dust Bowl, dust bowler, dust bunny, dust cart, dust catcher Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dustbinMarrero himself was hardly a “cup of coffee” relic or a minor character belatedly retrieved from the dustbin of baseball history. Havana Bids Adios to Conrado Marrero, MLB’s Oldest Player|Peter C. Bjarkman|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Drop your clash of civilizations references into the dustbin of history. Duck! Reality TV Returns Us to the Dark Age of Tribal Warfare|James Poulos|December 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST And, magically, the point of no return disappeared into the dustbin of history—at least for a few months. Bibi’s Three Steps Forward, One Back|Trita Parsi|October 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST But the Finnish company struck a deal this month that will doom it to the dustbin of history. Nokia's Suicide Deal with Microsoft|Dan Lyons|February 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST
One man carried a broom and dustbin with a picture of Mubarak inside. Egypt's Million Man March Protesters to Mubarak: Resign Now|Babak Dehghanpisheh|February 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST But judging from Tora's voice—it sounds really aggrieved—I think it's time we went and umpired about the dustbin. Mrs. Maxon Protests|Anthony Hope Domestic servants come with their baskets full of rubbish in order to empty them into the dustbin. The Inferno|August Strindberg He threw the cruet in the dustbin—where I found it, along with other silver—for the sake of a burglary blind. The Wisdom of Father Brown|G. K. Chesterton But to me the divinities of antiquity are not mere dolls to be patted superciliously on the head and then remitted to the dustbin. Archaic England|Harold Bayley That tidiness of yours is a mania; that way of looking upon the world as a dustbin is a disease. The Twilight of the Souls|Louis Couperus
British Dictionary definitions for dustbin
nouna large, usually cylindrical container for rubbish, esp one used by a householdUS and Canadian names: garbage can, trash can 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 dustbintrash can, wastebasket, wastepaper basket, circular file, ashcan, skip |