Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
WordNet
Usage examples of "garbage can".
Probably his wife has set him onto me because of those rats in their garbage can, which he could never prove was us but knows it was.
The two men who were fighting over the garbage can were caught by the bullets and made to dance as if their shoes were aflame.
There was not much of a future doing nothing, staying locked up in this crumpled garbage can along with its obnoxious captain and the quack admiral.
He puts down the jack-o'-lantern and braceshimself against a garbage can, swaying drunkenly.
I swam back and found another one under the engine room, this one made from the bottom of a plastic garbage can and a couple of big old industrial magnets.
When Jason went outside to empty the garbage, he had found a skunk in the garbage can.
But since the garbage can was already three-quarters full, the musician had trouble getting the lid back on.