Usually means: Container for disposing of waste.
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  1. garbage can: Merriam-Webster
  2. garbage can: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. garbage can: Collins English Dictionary
  4. garbage can: Vocabulary.com
  5. garbage-can: Wordnik
  6. garbage can: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. garbage can: Wiktionary
  8. garbage can: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. garbage can: Dictionary.com
  10. Garbage can: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. garbage can: Rhymezone
  12. Garbage Can (outside): American-Britih Dictionary
  13. garbage can: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. garbage can: FreeDictionary.org
  15. garbage can: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. garbage can: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. garbage can: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. garbage can: Encyclopedia

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  1. garbage can: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (garbage can)

noun:  (Canada, US) A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.

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