garbage can

noun

a container, usually of metal or plastic, for the disposal of waste matter, especially kitchen refuse.

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Origin:
1905–10, Americanism

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garbage can

—n
	(US), (Canadian) ash bin, ash can, trash can, Also called: dustbin a large, usually cylindrical container for refuse, esp one used by a household

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"When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years' life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?"

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