dustbindust‧bin /ˈdʌstbɪn/ noun [countable] 
British English a large container outside your house, used for holding waste until it is taken away SYN garbage can American English
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Dustbin derby: Schools throughout Langbaurgh are competing for Telethon's dustbin derby by collecting plastic bags for recycling.
- Have you any notion what people put in dustbins?
- He found the letter of introduction to Monsieur Messidor and tossed it into the dustbin.
- It was a black plastic dustbin bag.
- Next morning the din from the dustbin lids had hardly subsided when the grim realization drove into my brain.
- Old Ape rooted in the dustbins outside Phyl's Phries.
- Only this time, it was found rolling around in a dustbin.
- Was lying beside dustbins and boxes of waste paper, just inside the locked gates to the yard.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the name on the coffin lidCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
British English· Use the black bin bags provided by the council.
British English Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.
Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap. (=to forget about something that existed in the past – used especially when saying that you will feel glad when people have got rid of something)· One day nuclear weapons will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
the name on the coffin lid· Next morning the din from the dustbin lids had hardly subsided when the grim realization drove into my brain.· Melissa heard the sounds of a dustbin lid being replaced and the running of a tap as Eleanor washed her hands.· We had been wakened as on my first morning by the hideous 6 a.m. clattering of dustbin lids.
· At Christmas the dustbin men always knocked to give Mrs Murphy a box of chocolates and a bunch of flowers.· And all those nice dustbin men would be out of a job.
British English a large container outside your house, used for holding waste until it is taken away SYN garbage can American English