WordNet
n. the collection and removal of garbage [syn: garbage collection, garbage pickup, trash collection]
Usage examples of "trash pickup".
L Plummer and Tomas Regaladocontinued to grandstand as champions of regular folks who can't afford to pay more for trash pickup.
I'd just as leave be put out on the curb for Thursday trash pickup.
The street was unusually quiet: no rush-hour traffic or trash pickup on the day after Thanksgiving.
He didn't like to pay for trash pickup, so he'd go out early on trash days and put his garbage in the neighbors' cans.
And if she threw it out, there hasn't been a trash pickup, so it would still be in the trash can.
The front room that served as a living room was furnished with a couple of ragged chairs and a sofa he'd likely retrieved from the street on trash pickup day.
Coins, bracelets, rings, chokers, tiaras, bullion, slabbed bars, goblets, plates, and all manner of other devices lay in a single imposing heap, as if casually discarded during a trash pickup.