1. wastebasket - Noun
2. wastebasket - Verb
A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. Albert Einstein
I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. Erma Bombeck
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Margaret Atwood
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. Robert Orben
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. Imogen Cunningham