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
The rest, something like a score, were ultimately overpowered, sent to prison and tried in the good old style, and sentenced to transportation to the criminal dumping-ground of Western Australia.
From Looking Seaward Again by Walter Runciman
When the gourds are ripe, these vines look like the dumping-ground for numerous poor, discarded oranges.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
An examination showed that this was a second, nearer dumping-ground for all the garbage and refuse of the swarm which could not be thrown down on the kitchen middens far below.
From Edge of the Jungle by William Beebe
The Bend is a mass of wreck, a dumping-ground for all manner of filth from the surrounding tenements.
From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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