trash can

noun

1. a container for the disposal of dry waste matter.

trash can

noun

1. Also called: ash can.  garbage can. a US name for dustbin

Example Sentences

Occasionally, Woo leaps over a trash can or a recycling bin, as if to taunt me for my lack of hops.

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Regular park employees are also keeping things in order by continuing to empty trash cans, clean up toilets and perform emergency and law enforcement duties.

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The two CIA men carried the wine bottles they’d emptied during the meeting out to the street and dropped them in a trash can.

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She recollects fishing Vogue magazines out of trash cans around age 6 and feeling “a deep affinity” with the images on their pages.

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He tried, moving trash cans and nudging back, then reluctantly concluding it was a lost cause.

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Related Words

• dustbin 
• wastebasket