dustheap

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noun

A pile of rubbish or refuse.

“We couldn't fix the old radio, so we consigned it to the dustheap.”

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Meanings

noundustheap (plural dustheaps)

plural dustheaps

  1. A pile of rubbish or refuse.

    We couldn't fix the old radio, so we consigned it to the dustheap.

    1 more example

    “What a strange thing!” said the overseer of the workmen at the foundry. “This broken lead heart will not melt in the furnace. We must throw it away.” So they threw it on a dust-heap where the dead Swallow was also lying.

    1888, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: Duckworth, published 1928, page 35

Origin

From dust + heap.

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APA

dustheap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustheap

MLA

“dustheap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustheap. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dustheap,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustheap.

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