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wastebasket
[ weyst-bas-kit, -bah-skit ]
wastebasket
/ ˈweɪstˌbɑːskɪt /
noun
- an open receptacle for paper and other dry litter Also called (esp in Britain)wastepaper basket
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wastebasket1
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Example Sentences
It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.
Beard nodded, and without another word, Kenney flung the work into the wastebasket.
What did you do—go through his wastebasket and find his pay stub?
Well, ultimately, the screenplay is the only part of a movie that you can fit into a wastebasket.
I even remember throwing the pieces into the round wooden wastebasket in our living room.
I finished cleaning out my desk and took a wastebasket full of papers to the back shop.
Bassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use.
Anything like that I always take and I tear up and put in the wastebasket.
Hall went through the wastebasket, the clothes hanging in the closet, every drawer in the bureau.
She tossed a slip into the wastebasket beside her and glanced at the next slip.
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