dumpster

noun
/ˈdʌmpstɚ/

Etymology

Genericized brand name, from blend of dump + Dempster. The original brand (and some associated things) are no longer trademarked, because the three trademarks involved have either expired or been cancelled. By surface analysis, dump + -ster.

Definitions

  1. A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in…

    A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.

    • […]with the uncanny ability to always look like he just woke up in a dumpster

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dumpster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA