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trash barrel

n. a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected [syn: ashcan, trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ash bin, ash-bin, ashbin, dustbin, trash bin]

Usage examples of "trash barrel".

Occasional candle gleams showed from windows, or the ruddier hue of open flame where someone had lit a fire in a Dumpster or trash barrel.

On the floor stood a plastic trash barrel brimming with discarded culture tubes.

Cass has found something to stand upon outside, perhaps an overturned trash barrel or a picnic table, which she has dragged near the motor home.

She started down the center aisle, then stopped as she saw a trash barrel.

This was all that remained, just the brittle, cracking skin, wadded down at the bottom of the trash barrel in a little heap.

The GAV's gunners opened up with its heavy slug-repeater, making riding in the Turbostorm resemble having one's head inside a durasteel trash barrel that's being clubbed by a pack of drunken squibs.

The first would then remove the kidneys and hand them to the second, and while the small organs went into a special container, he would remove the body, tossing it into a plastic trash barrel for later incineration.