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bins

/ bɪnz /

plural noun

  1. dialect,  a pair of glasses

“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


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Next to the lines are bins of free water, just one of the ways organizers sought to prevent ever-looming heat exhaustion.

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The blanks for his three-piece flatware set, Traynor tells me over the phone, are based on a set of Korean flatware he unearthed, piece-by-piece, serendipitously, from those terrifying thrift store cutlery bins.

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The court heard message exchanges between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from cutlery at a restaurant.

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"A flag we can all be proud of, a flag that symbolises unity, kindness, being the underdog, not having our bins emptied, and above all else, friendship."

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I spent hours at Tower Records and the Beat, where I’d go through bins and listen to new music on the sound system.

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