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trashbox

noun

Etymology

From trash + box.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. compounded as trashbox — “trash + box”

Definitions

  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.
    • He had his army suit put in a paper sack and he stuffed it into a trashbox on the corner.

  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.

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for trashbox. 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