WordNet
n. a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected [syn: ashcan, trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ash bin, ash-bin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel]
Usage examples of "trash bin".
Holtzman finished off his coffee and dumped the cup in the trash bin.
To my right, there was an oblong metal trash bin, chest-height with a hinged metal lid.
As he swung back to turn around, I darted toward the trash bin, lifted the lid with one thrust, and pulled myself over the metal lip into the crush of paper cups, discarded picnic sacks, debris.
He knew that he should pull the zipper shut, cautiously carry the purse blocks away from his own house, and dispose of it in someone else's trash bin.
If his body was discovered here, it must be at a distance from any trash bin used by the gallery.
Hadn't that old bum pulled a pair of spike heels and a green skirt out of a trash bin at the beach?
Mace reflexively slapped the bolts back at the shootersbut instead of rebounding from his blade, the bolts splattered through it and grazed his ribs and burst against a trash bin behind him so that it boomed and bucked and shivered like a cracked bell.
In the trash bin of one he dropped a very small, Japanese-made, tape recorder, making sure beforehand that it was operating properly.