dumping-ground
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dumping-ground
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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European bishops "regarded America as a convenient dumping-ground for rubbish," and he grew "weary of eccentric Frenchmen and quarrelsome and bibulous Gaels."
From Time Magazine Archive
At last we got to the dumping-ground spot again—the spot where we horsemen have to come to earth and walk, and where everything is unbaled from the limbers.
From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
England had made of it and of Botany Bay a dumping-ground for whatever manner of evil men and women she could scrape from her London slums.
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Frank H. Severance
Toom, tōōm, adj. empty.—n. a dumping-ground for rubbish.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The loss of the American colonies had deprived Britain of her chief dumping-ground for convicts.
From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir
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