WASTEPAPER BASKET


Meaning of WASTEPAPER BASKET in English

noun

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But the advent of the computer game generation and the recession has consigned Roy of the Rovers to football's wastepaper basket .

Draft after draft was relegated to the wastepaper basket .

Getting up from rummaging in the wastepaper basket , she bumped her head, very lightly, on the sink.

He got up, looked around, and kicked his wastepaper basket as hard as he could.

She dropped it into her wastepaper basket .

She stomped around the room with a wastepaper basket , collecting the obscene dolls.

The documents travel from printing press to wastepaper basket in one uninterrupted motion.

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