Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, usually metal receptacle for trash.
- noun Slang A depth charge.
- noun Slang A powerful cylindrical firecracker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A container for ashes, used in times past for accumulating ashes generated from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere. A
dustbin . - noun US, slang A kind of large
firecracker . - adjective Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun early 20th-century United States painting; portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life
- noun a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some folks at DC might even have gotten a peek at the "ashcan" story of Captain Thunder.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Some folks at DC might even have gotten a peek at the "ashcan" story of Captain Thunder.
“Give me a Superman, only have his other identity be...” 2009
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Before the end of 1939, the Fawcett company created some "ashcan" issues of a new comic book, printed without color and hand-bound, to secure its copyrights and to show to potential advertisers.
“Give me a Superman, only have his other identity be...” 2009
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Before the end of 1939, the Fawcett company created some "ashcan" issues of a new comic book, printed without color and hand-bound, to secure its copyrights and to show to potential advertisers.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Another aspirant franchise was strangled in the cradle of its brutal opening weekend: Green Lantern, starring perennial Nearly-Man Ryan Reynolds, won't be back for a sequel; it's bound for the ashcan of failed franchises, home already to Billy Zane's The Phantom and Ben Affleck's Daredevil.
The Hangover II, Final Destination 5: will the summer of sequels never end? 2011
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Put the completed pages together into a cheap ashcan to give away?
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She should have been relegated to the ashcan of history a very long time ago.
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Secretly, you knew your good shoes and your warm lined gloves kept you apart, and safe from the man with the cup in his hand and the boy with the cardboard sign and the woman with the bloated legs and the girls with the begging eyes from the weathered madwomen railing at God and the shadows at the ashcan fires from the need to ask, no choices left:
The No-Net World Larissa Shmailo 2012
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Heubert: The ashcan komiks can also double as coloring books.
Metro Comic Con ’09: Indie Komiks Panel « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009
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What he dont understand is that the dems saw his value in the 2000 election and decided to toss his ashcan under the bus.
john commented on the word ashcan
Synonym for trash can, from the days when wood and coal stoves were common, and the trash was often full of ash.
Also slang for a depth charge. Also an early 20th century American realist art movement.
October 17, 2007
mollusque commented on the word ashcan
"Two bucks to spend the night in this manhole," I said, "when for free I could have a nice airy ashcan."
--Raymond Chandler, 1943, The Lady in the Lake, chapter 13
September 4, 2009