ashcan
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ashcan (plural ashcans)
- A container for ashes, used in times past for accumulating ashes generated from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.
- A dustbin. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (US, slang) A kind of large firecracker.
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container for ashes
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ashcan (third-person singular simple present ashcans, present participle ashcanning, simple past and past participle ashcanned)
- (transitive, informal) To throw out like rubbish; to ditch or trash.
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ashcan (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.
- Describing a comic book originally published solely to retain ownership of a trademark, not intended for general release; later used for promotional comic books intended for limited release to the public.