Ashcan

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  • noun. A large, usually metal receptacle for trash.
  • noun. A depth charge.
  • noun. A powerful cylindrical firecracker.
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  • noun. a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
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  • noun. A container for ashes, used in times past for accumulating ashes generated from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere. A dustbin.
  • noun. A kind of large firecracker.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.
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  • noun. early 20th-century United States painting; portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life
  • noun. a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected
  • Word Usage
    "Before the end of 1939, the Fawcett company created some "ashcan" issues of a new comic book, printed without color and hand-bound, to secure its copyrights and to show to potential advertisers."
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