dustcart
Britishnoun
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The company is expected to do exactly as the city does with its own dozen dustcarts: fly-tip on spare land.
From BBC
After the Lord Mayor's Show... well, let's give the Great Britain men more respect than comparing them to a dustcart.
From The Guardian
"He was frustrated behind a dustcart and the beeping horns and Mr Stoddern's behaviour in the cab."
From BBC
Kloot replied for him: 'Your manuscript shall be returned to you by the first dustcart.'
From Project Gutenberg
Can't you see that all you have to do is to push him in the gutter, where he'll remain till the scavengers throw him into the dustcart?
From Project Gutenberg
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