What is "trashcan"

Usage examples of "trashcan".

Tlahualilo and he watered the horse in a washtrough and broke open the grainsack and poured the grain out into the upturned lid of a trashcan and he unsaddled the horse and wet the empty sack and rubbed the horse down with it and then carried the saddle in and got his key and went up to bed.

The paper sailed across the room, hit the rim of the trashcan, and bounced out.

It was propped up in the dirt like a fancy trashcan, and the door was open, with the instrument panel blinking ominously.

Swivelling to steady the trashcan, I barked my knee against the open fridge door and copped a pickle-jar on my toe, slid in the milk, and found myself on the deck with the trashcan throwing up in my face .

Glugging the rest of the champagne in her glass, she lobbed it into the trashcan and hopped off of the back of the truck.

At least four pipes in big glass ashtrays littered his counter space, files were piled haphazardly on both sides of his desk, his computer was off, wadded up paper was littered around the trashcan instead of in it.

The prison-ball has been reengineered, slathered with camouflage and armor and the best immune-suppressors on the market, and its navigation system has been adapted from add-ons stolen from the finest trashcans.

Trashcan Man stared at it in awe-the serried ranks of slot machines like soldiers standing at parade rest, beyond them the roulette and crap tables,, the marble railings enclosing the baccarat tables.

The results: Trashcan on a test flight, a heroin/antipsychotic drug compound.

This frightful boy demanding his paternal rights as though she were some sort of brood sow, she'd literally found him on the street picking up cigarette butts and pulling newspapers out of trashcans so she invited him to dinner and the police called just as they were sitting down.

Trashcan Man watched them fondly until they were out of sight, and then he began to chow down, eating ravenously until almost everything was gone.

It was almost dawn on the morning of August S when Trashcan Man entered Cibola, otherwise known as Vegas.

He waited for Trashcan Man in Cibola, and his were the armies of the night, his were the white-faced riders of the dead who would sweep out of the west and into the very face of the rising sun.

Trashcan Man whispered, and when the sun had dropped below the line of the mountains, he gained his feet and began to walk toward the towers, minarets, and avenues of Cibola, where the sparks of the lights were coming on again.

He had been Donald Merwin Elbert once, now he was Trashcan Man forever and ever, and he beheld the fabled City, Seven-in-One, Cibola.