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UK
/dˈʌmpstɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdəmpstɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈdəmpstɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a container designed to receive and transport and dump waste
How To Use Dumpster In A Sentence
- She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by. Times, Sunday Times
- It was pitch black inside the dumpster with only a slither of light entering through the crack of the lid.
- So you can scoff and snicker all you like at the shaggy, hangdog 27-year-old next door dressed in a baggy college sweatshirt and cargo shorts, taking empty pizza boxes and beer bottles to the dumpster. Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude
- It was populated by festering drifts of trash, with large dumpsters rising out of the junk like weird islands, and a few old-fashioned tin trashcans here and there.
- Turn off the water to the spigot - there must be a valve inside somewhere - and convince the neighbors that the dumpster area must be locked.
- Some baiters were reassigned to a ‘Dumpster Task Force’ to ticket people for leaving garbage out.
- She heard an angry voice swear outside the dumpster, then she heard a click and something that sounded unmistakably like dial tones on a phone.
- In some instances, this herdlike behavior created overreactions that set the stage for smart Dumpster-diving investors. Bargain Hunting Billionaires
- There are these dumpsters by the basketball court and the swing set.
- And then inversely, we see women who do infanticide or neonaticide of a baby that ` s very young, thrown away in a dumpster or worse, killed and then thrown away. CNN Transcript May 6, 2008