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From wastepaper basket, humorously modified by adding -agger to the first letters of waste, paper, and basket; compare -er (suffix forming informal or slang equivalents of words).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From wastepaper basket, humorously modified by adding -agger to the first letters of waste, paper, and basket; compare -er (suffix forming informal or slang equivalents of words).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.