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dump bin, n.
Brit. |ˈdʌmp bɪn|, U.S. |ˈdəmp ˌbɪn|
[‹ dump v.1 or (in sense 2) dump n.4 + bin n.]
1. Marketing. A free-standing cardboard display unit used for the promotional display of retail items (now esp. paperback books).
1961Grocer 4 Nov. 36/3 Doubling the selling space..was not..the greatest expense. It was the..new sectional shelving, eight dump bins, and..the new self-service refrigerator. 1972Statistician 21 165 The promotion was displayed in a dump bin and the standard stock was left on the shelf. 1984Bookseller 7 July 62/3 Unusual [sic] for a hardback, there will be dumpbins, since ‘it will sell like a paperback,’ says OUP. 1996Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Review section) 14/2 Will money be spent on a poster for bookshop windows, will there be advertising in newspapers or the sides of buses, will the author be sent on a book tour, will there be dumpbins in shops or a free paperback with a glossy magazine like Elle or Marie-Claire?
2. Any (usually large) open receptacle used for the deposit of waste or the storage of goods.
1978S. King Stand xxxv. 303 Sprawled in the back of one of the dump-bins was the crow-picked body of what had once been a man. 1981Mining Mag. (Nexis) Feb. 136 In the new refinery, the skips from No. 1 shaft will dump into 45 t capacity skip dump bins. 1986New Yorker 7 July 21/2 We scrambled down a ramp, dodged around a dump bin. 1996Independent 11 Nov. ii. 2/3 The floor of the children's section was painted with hopscotch squares, respectable middle-aged women handed their bags to their companions, did a skippety-jump and headed, smiling, straight for the strategically placed dump bins of extra yellow shoulder sacks. |