Sekirov Dictionary

wastebasket

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
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(figurative) Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.
- The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals. — 2017

verb1

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To discard in a 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. — 1924

forms

wastebasketed · wastebasketing · wastebaskets

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