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dumpster diving en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdʌmpstəˈdaɪvɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdʌmpstɚˈdaɪvɪŋ/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (US, uncountable) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.
    • Alan crawled to the back of the store, to Kurt’s den, sure that his friend would have been back there, worn out from a night’s dumpster diving. 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town:

Deriveds

Trumpster diving

Hyponyms

binology

Synonyms

D-Mart · skip-raiding · garbage picking · binning · skipping · garbage gleaning · dumpstering · garbing · tatting · trashing

Translations (22)

nn dumpsterdiving (act of recovering discarded items) · sv dumpstring (act of recovering discarded items) · es recolección urbana (act of recovering discarded items) · fr déchétarisme (act of recovering discarded items) · hu guberálás (act of recovering discarded items) · cs vybírání odpadků (act of recovering discarded items) · sv containerdykning (act of recovering discarded items) · fr glanage alimentaire (act of recovering discarded items) · da skraldning (act of recovering discarded items) · es cirujeo (act of recovering discarded items) · hu turkálás (act of recovering discarded items) · fi dyykkaus (act of recovering discarded items) · ja ゴミ漁り (act of recovering discarded items) · de Containern (act of recovering discarded items) · nn søppeldykking (act of recovering discarded items) · cmn 垃圾搜尋 /垃圾搜寻 (act of recovering discarded items) · hu kukabúvárkodás (act of recovering discarded items) · sv sopdykning (act of recovering discarded items) · fi roskisdyykkaus (act of recovering discarded items) · de Dumpstern (act of recovering discarded items) · nb søppeldykking (act of recovering discarded items) · fr trésordure (act of recovering discarded items)