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garbage can

Noun

Meaning

a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected

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A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!' Billie Joe Armstrong

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can. Lil Wayne

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner. Jodi Picoult

In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. Bruce Springsteen

I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired. Kacy Catanzaro

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. Kevin Mitnick

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