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dumpster

or Dump·ster

[ duhmp-ster ]

noun

  1. a large metal or plastic bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dumpster1

First recorded in 1935–40; dump ( def ) + -ster ( def ), originally part of the jingle “Dempster Dumpster, ” a trademark for a large trash container manufactured by the Dempster Brothers Company in Knoxville, Tennessee
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Example Sentences

They never had to dive into dumpsters behind the 7-11 to fish out Playboy magazines.

From Ozy

That means a lot of recycled plastic can only be used to make items whose color doesn’t matter, such as benches and dumpsters.

For example, due to February storms and power outages, Portland grocer Fred Meyer threw out thousands of pounds of food, and called the cops on residents who attempted to salvage it from the dumpster.

From Eater

It was Currey, who explained that he had found her wallet in the dumpster, and that he would like to return it to her.

Yet the game never really explains why everyone looks like they just crawled out of a Best Buy dumpster.

From Time

He hangs up the phone, then flicks his cigarette into the grease dumpster, which erupts in flames.

UNDERWOOD: (now smoking next to the grease dumpster out back) Ah wish ah could.

BUSBOY: (screaming inside dumpster) WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!?!?!?

Micah asks one of her dumpster-diving friends, who scored a load of meat too big for any of them to finish.

A homeless man found her nude body in a Dumpster on January 1, 2007.

It wasn't as if sitting in the dumpster would infect it or something.

The cat sprang away, clawing up his face, leaping back onto the Dumpster.

The dumpster was seven feet cubed, the duckies a few inches on a side.

There were thousands and thousands of duckies in the dumpster: more than they could ever fit into the Buick.

I found the most amazing cosmetics baskets at the Shiseido dumpster.

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