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n. (plural of garbage can English)
Usage examples of "garbage cans".
He's not been up to lifting a hundred and fifty garbage cans from three in the morning until seven-thirty, so Bozo and me had to do the lot ourselves.
A crew was working on the lighted set, which consisted of a bunch of panels made to look like an old brick wall, a couple of garbage cans, a trash bin, some loading pallets, and random bits of litter.
As McCoy walked down the line of steaming garbage cans, Zimmerman went to the 6 x 6, pulled out a large flat cardboard carton, and took from it two large two-hundred-yard bull's-eye targets.
One of those black plastic garbage cans like they sell down at the Tru-Value in town.
He considered beeping the horn to scare it away for good, but the sleeping brownstones with their empty garbage cans standing sentinel duty daunted him.
There was a colony of overloaded garbage cans to the right of the door.
The backyard was similar to the front: tall grass, a rusted swing set, two garbage cans overflowing with garbage, their dented lids lying on the ground nearby.
Some empty cardboard cartons had been stacked beside the garbage cans.
There was the dumpster, even a few large garbage cans, three steel doors with massive locks, and a basement window with steel bars.