dumpster

plural dumpsters

1. CanadaUSA 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

   2020 December 27, Dave Barry, “Dave Barry's Year in Review 2020”, in The Washington Post Magazine

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   He realized with a brief shudder that Kurt probably used this flashlight while nipple-deep in dumpsters, had an image of Kurt transferring it from his gloved hands to his mouth and back again as he dug through bags of kitchen and toilet waste, looking for discarded technology.

   2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

   Synonyms: skip, communal bin

present singular third person dumpsters · participle present dumpstering · participle past dumpstered · past dumpstered

1. slangtransitiveTo discard or dispose something, especially to throw into a dumpster.
2. slangtransitiveTo humiliatingly destroy, utterly demolish (an opponent).

   Synonyms: clap, stomp

3. slangSynonym of dumpster dive

   Synonyms: dumpster dive