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recycle bin

noun

Etymology

First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

Definitions

  1. A container in which items to be recycled may be placed.

  2. In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be…

    In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recycle bin. 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