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dumpster
[duhmp-ster]
noun
a large metal or plastic bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dumpster1
Example Sentences
For the locals who couldn’t afford one of his instruments, dumpster diving to obtain a guitar was frequent and critical.
It also talks nice about not throwing out people’s belongings, unless maybe they have bugs or feces on them — which, let’s be real, they might — in which case, the dumpster it is, even if that bundle may contain your identification or medications.
The tiles whirled, twisting and turning like helicopter seeds or bird wings, before hitting the metal dumpster below.
He opened the nozzle and chucked the canister into a gas station dumpster.
Actress Diane Keaton has renovated entire homes with historic tiles, and preservationists have been known to dumpster dive to save Batchelder tiles from the landfill.
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