Definition of "wastepaper basket" []

• See wastebasket. (noun)

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• "Ever tidy-minded, I couldn't stop myself twitching up a wastepaper basket and following her, taking the cups from her fingers and collecting them all together."
• "By the time I reached the hall, I had already tossed my dreams in the wastepaper basket along with the pad that I had brought to record the good news for my mother."