Meanings
- USuncountableThe act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.
Alan crawled to the back of the store, to Kurt’s den, sure that his friend would have been back there, worn out from a night’s dumpster diving.
2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownSynonyms: binning, D-Mart, dumpstering, garbage gleaning, garbage picking, garbing, skip-raiding, skipping
- participlepresentpresent participle of dumpster dive
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 垃圾搜尋 /垃圾搜寻
- 垃圾搜尋 /垃圾搜寻 (lèsèsōuxún)act of recovering discarded items
Czech vybírání odpadků
- vybírání odpadkůact of recovering discarded items
Danish skraldning
- skraldningact of recovering discarded items
Finnish dyykkaus, roskisdyykkaus
- dyykkausact of recovering discarded items
- roskisdyykkausact of recovering discarded items
French déchétarisme, glanage alimentaire
- déchétarismeact of recovering discarded items
- glanage alimentaireact of recovering discarded items
- trésordureact of recovering discarded items
German Dumpstern, Containern
- Dumpsternact of recovering discarded items
- Containernact of recovering discarded items
Hungarian guberálás, turkálás
- guberálásact of recovering discarded items
- turkálásact of recovering discarded items
- kukabúvárkodásact of recovering discarded items
Japanese ゴミ漁り
- ゴミ漁り (gomiisari)act of recovering discarded items
Norwegian Bokmål søppeldykking
- søppeldykkingact of recovering discarded items
Spanish recolección urbana, cirujeo
- recolección urbanaact of recovering discarded items
- cirujeoact of recovering discarded items
Swedish containerdykning, sopdykning
- containerdykningact of recovering discarded items
- sopdykningact of recovering discarded items
- dumpstringact of recovering discarded items
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dumpster diving
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dumpster diving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dumpster%20diving
“dumpster diving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dumpster%20diving. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dumpster diving,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dumpster%20diving.
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