trashbox

plural trashboxes

1. A receptacle for trash.

   He had his army suit put in a paper sack and he stuffed it into a trashbox on the corner.

   2007, Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood: A Novel, →ISBN

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   Sitting on a trashbox at a coiner was an old man in rags, and Carleton forced his shoulders back in a gesture of contempt for this old bastard — he would never be like that.

   1967, Joyce Carol Oates, A garden of earthly delights, page 123

2. computingAn electronic folder for deleted electronic mail.

   Liam shook his head, and clicked on inbox. Wasn't much in it, or in the outbox, or in the trashbox.

   1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 52

3. Synonym of flophouse.

   In the course of his statement to the investigating police officers, defendant Griffin admitted that he had left the trashbox when he heard who he thought was a night watchman pass by.

   2014, Gary R. Hartman, Roy M. Mersky, Cindy L. Tate, Landmark Supreme Court Cases, →ISBN

   Synonyms: flophouse