[ noun ] a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish <noun.artifact>
Wastebasket \Waste"bas`ket\, n. A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
A woman who gave birth in an airplane bathroom and stuffed the infant in a wastebasket won't go to jail until December because she is expecting another baby soon, officials said.
Last February, I threw the plans in the wastebasket, fired half the team, and reorganized the rest into small groups.
At "Herb's Dump" on the CBS affiliate KIRO in Seattle, reporter Herb Weisbaum pitches products that don't deliver into a wastebasket.
Police were looking for an unidentified man in his 20s who was spotted near the wastebasket before the blast, spokesman Marcel Vaudroz said.
A school official retrieved the chunk from a wastebasket and broke off a piece without the woman's knowledge, Gaida said.