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bin liner

British  

noun

  1. a plastic bag used to line the inside of a rubbish bin

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"People who come for a weekend are surprised when I hand them a bin liner and say it needs to come back off with them - but no-one comes here to collect the bins."

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

Something—a rat or a fox or even, perhaps, the cat I’d just seen—had ripped a bin liner open.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

In the 1990s, it was found at the back of the church, wrapped in a black plastic bin liner, according to current vicar of St Gwyndaf's, the Rev Sarah Geach.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2018

Given that my idea of paperwork is emptying my desk drawer into a bin liner and shoving it under my bed, I was going to run into problems.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2014

Photograph: Alamy She was a tearful, older woman holding a bulging bin liner.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2012