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Definitions
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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