ashcan

Speech parts

1. ashcan - Noun

2. ashcan - Adjective

Meaning

a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dustbin garbage can ashbin ash bin trash can wastebin trash bin CFO bin compost heap ashtray depth charge dumpster wastebasket ash-pan

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Hypernyms

bin

Phrases with the word

ashcan tree

Anagrams

nachas Schaan

Examples

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber. P. G. Wodehouse

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity. Stephen Jay Gould

Close letter words and terms

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