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trashbox en · NOUN

Etymology

From trash + box.

Meanings

1. A receptacle for trash.
   • Sitting on a trashbox at a coiner was an old man in rags, and Carleton forced his shoulders back in a gesture of contempt for this old bastard — he would never be like that. 1967, Joyce Carol Oates, A garden of earthly delights, page 123:
   • He had his army suit put in a paper sack and he stuffed it into a trashbox on the corner. 2007, Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood: A Novel, →ISBN:
2. An electronic folder for deleted electronic mail.
   • Liam shook his head, and clicked on inbox. Wasn't much in it, or in the outbox, or in the trashbox. 1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 52:
3. Synonym of flophouse.
   • In the course of his statement to the investigating police officers, defendant Griffin admitted that he had left the trashbox when he heard who he thought was a night watchman pass by. 2014, Gary R. Hartman, Roy M. Mersky, Cindy L. Tate, Landmark Supreme Court Cases, →ISBN:

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Synonyms

flophouse