Definition of trash can in US English:
trash can
nounˈtraSH ˌkanˈtræʃ ˌkæn
North American another term for garbage can
Example sentencesExamples
- He drank the last of the black coffee and threw the cup in the nearest trash can.
- Chairs were stacked on the other side between a trash can and a drinking fountain.
- My husband set up an empty trash can with a locking lid outside the coop.
- Maybe he doesn't put a new bag in the trash can after emptying the old one.
- He walks across the street, picks up a red plastic drinking cup and deposits it in a trash can.
- She slung the strap of her messenger bag over her shoulder and grabbed her empty cup and tossed it into the trash can.
- He took a sip out of a Styrofoam cup and pitched it into a nearby trash can as they walked out of the police station.
- As good fortune would have it, there was a large shopping bag in the trash can.
- As Tom was preparing to leave the office for the weekend, he again noticed the packet in the trash can.
- The police report indicated that the girl told her mother that the teacher had thrown her bag in the trash can.
- And it seems like a good plan to head out to the suburbs and toss a mysterious package in a trash can?
- I ate as much of it as I could stand, then I walked to the trash can and bussed my tray.
- I scrawled it down on a candy bar wrapper I picked out of a nearby trash can and gave it to her.
- There was a trash can that they had taken that belonged to a neighbor that was missing.
- As I did this he put his glass in the sink and slugging down the last sip of root beer tossed the bottle into the trash can.
- He went through it slowly scraping everything into the trash can and leaving the dishes in the sink to soak.
- On a trash can outside was an empty silly string bottle, and a bit of green silly string on the lid, and it was still wet.
- When the chips were gone, she wadded up the bag and stuffed it into the tiny trash can at the foot of her bed.
- Then he spotted a sidewalk trash can and deposited the bowl inside as he passed it.
- It is smelly and unattractive, and is therefore left in the trash can in the alley.