wastebasket
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Is wastebasket a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of wastebasket?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative, by extension) Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.Examples: "The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals."; "For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]"broadlyfiguratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.Examples: "I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary