trash compactor

noun

: a machine that presses trash together

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After sliding down a Brooklyn building’s garbage chute at age 9 to retrieve a superintendent’s keys, his foot caught in the trash compactor and was left hanging by only a tendon. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026 Sitting there is a 10-ton trash compactor that handled everything that the team threw out. — Carlton Gillespie, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026 When an apartment manager gave investigators access to the apartment, and to Limon's locked bedroom, the third roommate told detectives Abugharbieh had used a cart overnight on April 16 to move cardboard boxes from his room to the trash compactor. — CBS News, 8 May 2026 Inside the trash compactor, detectives found pots and pans, Limon’s wallet and glasses and Bristy’s pink iPhone case. — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trash compactor

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“Trash compactor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trash%20compactor. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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