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WASTE BASKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waste basket mean? 

WASTE BASKET (noun)
  The noun WASTE BASKET has 1 sense:

1. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbishplay

  Familiarity information: WASTE BASKET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WASTE BASKET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

circular file; waste-paper basket; waste basket; wastebasket; wastepaper basket

Hypernyms ("waste basket" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))


 Context examples 


These he tore lengthwise and crosswise and dropped into the waste basket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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