WordNet
n. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish [syn: wastepaper basket, wastebasket, waste basket, circular file]
Usage examples of "waste-paper basket".
He threw the wrecked and battered cigar into the waste-paper basket, took a fresh one out of a box, gave it a few preliminary chews and lit it.
Newspapers, a coat, some kicked-off boots, coffee cups, an empty yoghurt carton in a fruit bowl, with spoon, some dying daffodils, a typewriter with its cover off, some scrunched-up pages that had missed the waste-paper basket.
You'll find a couple of hundred of them in the waste-paper basket.
In the waste-paper basket, Smiley noticed several discarded copies of Sporting Life.
Still thinking, she vaguely dropped the orange and purple paper in the vicinity of the waste-paper basket squashed under her desk.
She let herself down into the big waste-paper basket in the sitting-room, and sat there very quietly indeed.