Usually means: Container for disposing of waste.
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  1. trash can: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trash can: Merriam-Webster
  3. trash can: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trash can: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trash can: Vocabulary.com
  6. trash-can: Wordnik
  7. trash can: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Trash can: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. trash can: Wiktionary
  10. trash can: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. trash can: Dictionary.com
  12. Trash Can, Trash can: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. trash can: Rhymezone
  14. trash can: FreeDictionary.org
  15. trash can: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. trash can: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. trash can: CCI Computer
  2. trash can: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trash can: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trash can)

▸ noun:  (US, Philippines) A receptacle which serves as a place to discard waste materials.

Similar:
garbage can, dustbin, trash bin, wastebin, ashbin, ashcan, trash barrel, trashcan, trashbox, dumpster, more...

Opposite:
trash bin, garbage can, waste receptacle

Phrases:
Push the Talking Trash Can, The Trash Can Sinatras, pounds of the loud in a trash can, big trash can, trash can make a big difference, more...

Adjectives:
ashcan, heapy, paydirt, slash and burn, straw, pap, cutover, new-mown, try, garbage, fodient

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Similar:
garbage can, dustbin, trash bin, wastebin, ashbin, ashcan, trash barrel, trashcan, trashbox, dumpster, more...

Opposite:
trash bin, garbage can, waste receptacle

Phrases:
Push the Talking Trash Can, The Trash Can Sinatras, pounds of the loud in a trash can, big trash can, trash can make a big difference, more...

Adjectives:
ashcan, heapy, paydirt, slash and burn, straw, pap, cutover, new-mown, try, garbage, fodient



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