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dumpster, n. N. Amer. (orig. U.S.).|ˈdʌmpstə(r)|
[f. dump v.1 + -ster, app. introduced in the jingling pair Dempster Dumpster (see quot. 1937).]
A very large container for the collection and conveyance of rubbish, a skip.
1937Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 2 Nov. 29/1 Dempster Brothers, Incorporated, Knoxville, Tenn... Dempster Dumpster. For hoisting units and detachable buckets and containers therefor. 1953Amer. City June 212/1 (Advt.), A truck-mounted Dempster-Dumpster picking-up, hauling and then dumping a 10 cu.yd. Dempster-Dumpster Detachable Container. 1953Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Sept. 1107/1 Dempster Dumpster... For storage and transporting containers for use in carrying and dumping materials—namely, refuse, trash, garbage, scrap, dirt, and rock. 1971J. Ball First Team (1972) xvi. 248 One of the massive dumpsters used in the yard, a steel open-topped container used to collect scrap and waste material. 1987T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities (1988) v. 121 They..threw him into a dumpster on a side street. 1989R. Banks Affliction xii. 166 He went beyond the lot a ways and parked it out of sight beside a big green Dempster Dumpster about fifty yards away. |