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wastepaper basket  noun chiefly BritishA receptacle for small quantities of rubbish.In addition to cleaning the offices, the job entailed sifting through the wastepaper baskets and any unlocked cupboards attempting to find any trace of more than a hundred lost files....- If the pamphlet is directed at a non-Irish audience I very much doubt if it will get farther than their wastepaper baskets.
- A woman called Lola arrived at HQ with some denunciations which went into the wastepaper basket as soon as her back was turned.
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