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litter basket

n. bin (usually in or outside a public building) into which the public can put rubbish [syn: litterbin, litter-basket]

Usage examples of "litter basket".

A cat lying on top of a hexagonal litter basket (the basket still had fresh-looking advertisements for a Broadway show on its sides) with her kittens, giving them suck and enjoying the midmorning sun.

He wadded them up and threw them in the litter basket by a lamppost.

He dumped the empty clam shells in a litter basket, came back, and added with no pity at all: 'My guy said it sounded like she was crying all through it.

Instead, he had controlled himself (with a mighty effort) and had walked out of the library, crumpling the useless sheet of paper in one strong hand as he went and dropping it into a litter basket on the sidewalk.

She knew it even before fishing it out of the litter basket and verifying what she knew by turning to the crossword, which she'd mostly completed over lunch, in her distinctive lilac-colored ink.

She returned it to the litter basket and looked across Second Avenue to the place where her idea of how things worked had changed.

She knew it even before fishing it out of the litter basket and verifying what she knew by turning to the crossword, which she’.

She knew it even before fishing it out of the litter basket and verifying what she knew by turning to the crossword, which she'.

Further along, the Yorkshire terrier lifted his leg on a litter basket.

If I ride in a car with someone down the Major Deegan Expressway, they always yell, hey looka that, and I always look and ifs always a legless cripple or some drunk lady whose thing is collecting Cardboard flats what it is shes puking into a litter basket, or a cat run over across the head by a sanitation truck.

There he glanced rapidly but thoroughly at each page, then shoved the paper in the litter basket and re-emerged.

There was a public litter basket attached to a lamp-post almost in front of the front-steps.

There was a litter basket off to the left, by the door to the newsstand, which was closed and dark.