Crossword clues for dumpster
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1930s, from Dempster-Dumpster trash-hauling mechanism, patented by Dempster Brothers and probably named from dump (v.) with the surname in mind.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.
Wikipedia
A dumpster is a type of mobile garbage bin designed to be brought and taken away by a special truck. The word is a genericized trademark of Dumpster, an American brand name for a specific design. Generic usage of dumpster is also common in Australia, although Dumpster is not an established brand there.
Usage examples of "dumpster".
From the street outside came the sound of a dumpster being emptied into an E.
After a couple days the glass is all steamed up and the roach has asphyxiated messlessly and Orin discards both the roach and the tumbler in separate sealed Ziplocs in the dumpster complex by the golf course up the street.
His symptoms themselves developed symptoms, troughs and nodes he charted with morbid attention in the dumpster, in his suspenders and horrid tweed cap, clutching a shopping bag with his wig and coat and comely habilements he could neither wear nor pawn.
The other rat had vanished under the dumpster, dragging its rear region.
He had found the box of tea bags in the dumpster in the alley behind the health food store.
The same dumpster had yielded four Sweet and Innocent honey candy suckers, smashed, but still in their wrappers.
In a dumpster four blocks away, he had found two packets of tall candles, each broken in several places, but still quite useful.
With an old text book salvaged from the dumpster behind the used book store, and the price of a cup of coffee, that man could have passed a warm morning.
The first was that if he sat still enough, crouched on his heels behind the dumpster, an envelope of body heat would form around his still body and protect him.
As he passed the corner of the dumpster, he gave the bag a toss that carried it safely under it.
Wizard helped him to the dumpster and he leaned against it until the belated adrenalin shudders had passed.
He wandered into an alley and squatted beside a dumpster, out of the wind.
She had shown him a bakery where a kindhearted assistant set out the discarded baked goods on a tin foil tray atop the dumpster to save the street people the trouble of digging for them.
He would meet it face to face in the night, not be dragged out from behind some dumpster in an alley.
Estelle scrabbled around the edge of the dumpster, and after a sniff, Ruby Bee followed her, even though certain parts of her anatomy were sure to be black and blue before morning.