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ashtray

[ ash-trey ]

noun

  1. a receptacle for tobacco ashes of smokers.


ashtray

/ ˈæʃˌtreɪ /

noun

  1. a receptacle for tobacco ash, cigarette butts, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ashtray1

First recorded in 1885–90; ash 1 + tray 1

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Example Sentences

Can’t forget the rocks and shells in the ashtray, the masks slung around the rearview mirror, or the dinosaur toy glued to the dash.

His image on the book cover — smiling in a suit, holding a glass half-full of red wine and a lit Camel cigarette in an ashtray — conveys his old-school approach to politics.

Either way, “I will come out stronger,” she says, stubbing her cigarette in a glass ashtray.

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On the desk, an ashtray is filled with 23-year-old cigarette butts and a gas mask.

A glass of vodka sat next to the ashtray on his night table.

Dice cracks a window so he can chain-smoke Marlboro Lights, using a glass of water as an ashtray.

Ten thousand; two in the front, two in the back, the rest in the ashtray.

He promptly offered an explanation for that slam and for his dismissal of Vice President Biden as “dumb as an ashtray.”

Jason stopped shaking the dice and looked at them quizzically, then reached over and grabbed the ashtray.

Hamilton carefully placed his cigar in the ashtray and tried to put a match into his mouth.

Then I came across something that looked like an ashtray with a blue electric shimmer obscuring the bottom of the bowl.

He would disgorge from the pit of his favourite ashtray all the toxins lodged in the burnt up tobacco.

(He quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom's ear) Where's that Goddamned cursed ashtray?

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