Definition of dustbin
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British
: a can for trash or garbage
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: dustheap 2
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For the French-Canadian researcher and others, the deep suspicion and skepticism took a serious toll, consigning their research to the dustbin for decades, without a fair hearing.
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Reed appears to be slipping inexorably toward the dustbin of Cleveland political history.
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Thanks for saving his memoirs from the dustbin of history, Peter.
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This is not the kind of drink that would have been served five years ago in a place that serves tater tots, but fortunately for us, that sort of potable and edible classism has largely been relegated to history’s dustbin.
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Having preordained the guardrails of democracy to give way to the new Hitler, and having consigned liberalism to the dustbin of history, its critics on the left proceed to boil the political question down to a simple binary.
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Others are just bad ideas that no one has yet had the sense to toss in the dustbin of history.
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Any government in a democratic country that failed this spectacularly would have been relegated to the dustbin of history long ago.
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So in less than 24 hours, the 2015–16 and 2017 GOP plans for dealing with Obamacare will be tossed into the dustbin of history.
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First Known Use of dustbin
1848
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Definition of dustbin for English Language Learners
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: a can for trash or garbage : a garbage can or trash can
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