Crossword clues for ashcan
ashcan
- Rubbish holder
- Fireplace receptacle
- Garbage receptacle
- Garbage collector
- Place to throw garbage
- Garbage holder
- Early 20th-century art movement
- American realist school
- Trash bin
- Small receptacle
- Rubbish bin
- Rubbish barrel
- Realist artistic movement
- PT boat weapon, informally
- Picnic paper's destination
- Cinders container
- Certain trash receptacle
- Urban school of art
- Sidewalk sight
- Rubbish collector
- Picnic area barrel
- Navy word for a depth charge
- Metallic garbage holder
- Discard place
- Depth charge, in military slang
- Depth bomb, in Navy slang
- Coal-user's receptacle
- Certain garbage receptacle
- Art movement typified by Sloan's "McSorley's Bar"
- Antisub weapon
- American realist art school
- --- School (early 20th-century art group)
- __ School: art movement featuring NYC scenes
- Prendergast's school
- Dump
- School of painting
- Depth charge, slangily
- Waste receptacle
- ___ School (20th-century art group)
- Sub sinker or trash receptacle
- Depth charge, in slang
- ___ School (early 20th-century art group)
- Art school name
- Refuse receptacle
- New York school of art
- Antisub weapon, slangily
- Trash receptacle
- Refuse holder
- Refuse container
- 8-Down sinker
- Waste place
- A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected
- Depth charge: Slang
- Depth charge, to a gob
- School of American art
- Artists' ___ School: 1908
- Destroyer's depth charge
- Early 1900's school of painters
- School of art
- Sub drubber
- Depth bomb, to a gob
- School of painters: c. 1908
- A quick assessment about hospital waste location
- A quick look outside hotel for dustbin in New York
- Trash holder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ashcan \ashcan\ n. a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
Syn: trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel, trash bin.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcan%20School of American art. 2 Describing a comic book originally published solely to retain ownership of a trademark, not intended for general release; later used for promotional comic books intended for limited release to the public. n. 1 A container for ashes, used in times past for accumulating ashes generated from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere. A dustbin. 2 (context US slang English) A kind of large firecracker.
WordNet
n. a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected [syn: trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ash bin, ash-bin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel, trash bin]
Wikipedia
Ashcan may refer to:
- Ashcan (waste), a waste container
- Camp Ashcan, World War II prisoner of war camp for senior Nazi leaders
- Ashcan (weapon), an anti-submarine weapon
- Ashcan copy, a comic book publication produced solely for legal purposes
- Ashcan School, a realist artistic movement
Usage examples of "ashcan".
You remember, of course, the infamous Ashcan Murder of November 7, 1939?
I should imagine the Perrys would just have thrown it into the ashcan straight away.
Zingerman the painter had a certain integrity, a kind of Ashcan school realism.
So this was what it came to, Ebdus the bridge between Ashcan school schlock and photorealist dragons, a momentary interlude.
Brutus, the evil striped cat, stalked angrily around his feet while Candy, the tortoiseshell, cried piteously, and Ashcan tried to climb his legs.
He let it fall to the table and stood without moving for a time, then shoved Ashcan away and went back to the cat dishes, filled one with food and the other with water to shut up the beasts.
Kelly noticed what was going on around us, got an ashcan cover, and ran into the pissoir, banging the walls.
When the ashcans burst, it was like a kick in the ass from an elephant.
I thought of the gang dumping ashcans on Third Avenue and soaping up the windows.
Robin and I had gone with him to the art museum and he had looked at the pictures the way someone who understands pictures does, talking about how much he liked the Ashcan painters, why Fauvism stank because of the vulgar colors.
I heard the clang of the ashcans as the first superin tendent came out of his basement apartment, tucked away in the alley, dropping the coal's excrement on my snow.
The depth-charge launcher was a new gadget, the Ericsson one of the first ships in the Navy to use it instead of simply rolling the ashcans off the stern.
Tiny dark stores on each side of the cluttered streets, overflowing ashcans, the pavement littered with pieces of broken bottles, drab painted signs that advertised Coca-Cola in big letters and the name of the store in small.
One of a multitude of busy ants, forever scrounging the ashcans of talent.
Next, attach an ashcan fire cracker (M-80) or a cherry bomb to the side of the bottle using epoxy glue.