Definition of "garbage can" []

• A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top then at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials. (noun)

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• "Clenching her fists, Cara stood a moment, fighting to keep from dumping the entire garbage can out onto the floor."
• "I put every warning sign of all that might happen right into the garbage can of my self-deceptive brain."
• "WHAM WHAM Harry's universe was a madness of noise and jolts, as if a giant had put him in a garbage can and used the can for a field hockey puck."