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wastebasket

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Definitions

  1. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

Word origin

From waste + basket.

Used in a sentence

  • The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.
  • For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]
  • I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.

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