Definition of "ashcan" []

• A large, usually metal receptacle for trash. (noun)
• Slang A depth charge. (noun)
• Slang A powerful cylindrical firecracker. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Before the end of 1939, the Fawcett company created some "ashcan" issues of a new comic book, printed without color and hand-bound, to secure its copyrights and to show to potential advertisers."
• "Some folks at DC might even have gotten a peek at the "ashcan" story of Captain Thunder."
• "She should have been relegated to the ashcan of history a very long time ago."