[
UK
/dˈʌstkɑːt/
]
NOUN
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a truck for collecting domestic refuse
in Britain a garbage truck is called a dustcart
How To Use dustcart In A Sentence
- The Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
- To me, it is reminiscent of an old corporation dustcart, not dissimilar to the one seen in the 1971 feature film when the Dads Army platoon hitch a ride back to Walmington-On-Sea from their manoeuvres (thank you Anoneumouse). And now... the European Army
- Plus the carriage, which makes Cinderella's looks like a dustcart. TV review: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings
- How many readers have stood at the top of a landfill site and watched the dustcarts tipping their day's load of rubbish?
- The money will be spent on extra dustcarts and employing more council bin men to implement the new rubbish collection regime.
- in Britain a garbage truck is called a dustcart
- While the dustcart crept through ‘two-bin Bassett,’ tipping load after load of tins, cartons, newspaper and cardboard into its interior, residents speculated on the pros and cons of the scheme, which sparked a storm of protest.
- Each week the whistling dustman came down the back garden, hoisted the full dustbin on his shoulder, carried it up the garden and tipped the contents into the dustcart.
- Buses, articulated lorries, dustcarts and family cars are all forced to mount it on a day-to-day basis, wrecking road surfaces, kerb stones and drains.
- I thought it was a dustcart hitting the bridge, which has happened in the past.