dumpstern.
/ˈdʌmpstə/ North American (originally U.S.).
A very large container for the collection and conveyance of rubbish, a skip.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > container for collection and conveyance of rubbish
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1937 Official 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.
1953 Amer. City June 212/1 (advt.) A truck-mounted Dempster-Dumpster picking-up, hauling and then dumping a 10 cu.yd. Dempster-Dumpster Detachable Container.
1953 Official 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.
1971 J. 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.
1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities (1988) v. 121 They..threw him into a dumpster on a side street.
1989 R. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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