Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wastepaper basket
noun
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▪ But the advent of the computer game generation and the recession has consigned Roy of the Rovers to football's wastepaper basket.
▪ Draft after draft was relegated to the wastepaper basket.
▪ Getting up from rummaging in the wastepaper basket, she bumped her head, very lightly, on the sink.
▪ He got up, looked around, and kicked his wastepaper basket as hard as he could.
▪ She dropped it into her wastepaper basket.
▪ She stomped around the room with a wastepaper basket, collecting the obscene dolls.
▪ The documents travel from printing press to wastepaper basket in one uninterrupted motion.
Wiktionary
wastepaper basket
n. A small open container for discarded paper etc; a wastebasket.
WordNet
wastepaper basket
n. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish [syn: waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket, circular file]