trash-bin

verb

To trash, throw out, discard; (computing) to delete (a file, etc).

Meanings

verbtrash-bin (third-person singular simple present trash-bins, present participle trash-binning, simple past and past participle trash-binned)

present singular third person trash-bins · participle present trash-binning · participle past trash-binned · past trash-binned

  1. To trash, throw out, discard; (computing) to delete (a file, etc).

    Your request to know explicit details about my sex life is noted, ridiculed, and trashbinned.

    2002 May 8, Clay Colwell, “Yardhelp:”, in austin.general (Usenet)
    1 more example

    I can think of a few colleagues who flagellate themselves into trash-binning fully adequate text. If these folk had the same neurosis in their cooking, they would starve to death!

    2005, Mario Rinvolucri, “Unleashing Writing Creativity in Students”, in English Teaching Forum, volume 43, number 3, page 42
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