wastepaper basket

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waste·pa·per bas·ket /ˌweɪstˈpeɪpə ˌbɑːskət, ˈweɪstˌpeɪpə- $ ˈweɪstˌpeɪpər ˌbæ-/ ●●○ noun [countable] British English   DHa small container for holding paper, cans etc that are not wanted 废纸篓 SYN American English wastebasket →4  See picture of 见图 BIN →5 see picture at 见图 bin1

Examples from the Corpus

wastepaper basket• She stomped around the room with a wastepaper basket, collecting the obscene dolls.• She dropped it into her wastepaper basket.• He got up, looked around, and kicked his wastepaper basket as hard as he could.• But the advent of the computer game generation and the recession has consigned Roy of the Rovers to football's wastepaper basket.• Getting up from rummaging in the wastepaper basket, she bumped her head, very lightly, on the sink.• Draft after draft was relegated to the wastepaper basket.• The documents travel from printing press to wastepaper basket in one uninterrupted motion.

waste·pa·per bas·ket nounChineseSyllable  

for holding cans a paper, container small Corpus

wastepaper basket
waste‧pa‧per bas‧ket /ˌweɪstˈpeɪpə ˌbɑːskət, ˈweɪstˌpeɪpə- $ ˈweɪstˌpeɪpər ˌbæ-/ noun [countable] British English

a small container for holding paper, cans etc that are not wanted
   SYN  wastebasket American English