dust-bin, ˈdustbin
1. A bin or receptacle for the dust, ashes, and other refuse of a house.
| 1848 Dickens Dombey xvii, The Captain's nosegay was swept into the dust-bin next morning. 1895 Parkes Health 37 The old-fashioned brick dustbin. |
| fig. and attrib. 1901 Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 23 Feb. 234/2 The Drama of the Dustbin. This phrase was not coined by me... Mr. Clement Scott issued it into our currency as a description of ‘Mr. & Mrs. Daventry’. 1930 C. Dixon This Way to Paradise i. 29 Wasn't it just one of the usual dust-bin experiences? Ibid. 30 The whole of existence is an affair of dust-bins. 1931 R. Graves Poems 1926–1930 53 He leads the sick words into parliament To rule a dust-bin world with deep-sleep phrases. 1940 Times 25 Apr. 8/7 When two..men were summoned..for removing refuse from dustbins without authority..solicitor for the prosecution said, ‘This offence is known as {oqq}dustbin totting{cqq}.’ 1958 E. H. Carr Socialism in one Country I. iv. 148 Trotsky relegated his defeated opponents to the dustbin of history. 1959 Times 23 May 5/6 Plainly the Ulysses of James Joyce is the great source of the modern dustbin drama. |
b. Special Comb. dustbinman, a refuse collector; = binman 2.
| 1969 TV Times 18 Sept. 8/2 He recited the formal caution: ‘The *dustbinman never solicits gratuities, never ‘tots’ or sells scrap on the side, and he is never discourteous’. 1982 Times 9 Dec. 7/7 Rubbish continued to pile up on the streets and pavements of Paris yesterday as the dustbinmen's strike entered its fifth day. |
2. A gun-turret of an aircraft, esp. the one beneath the fuselage. slang.
| 1934 Flight 15 Feb. 160/1 Our photographer..took his photographs from the ‘dustbin’, the retractable and rotatable turret for a Lewis gun beneath the fuselage. 1942 Gen 1 Sept. 14/1 The rear gunner's turret is the ‘dust bin’. 1967 C. H. Barnes Shorts Aircraft 377 Here there had originally been mounted a twin-Browning F.N. 25 retractable ventral turret..; this ‘dust-bin’ turret was deleted from early production Stirlings. |
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Add: [1.] [b.] dustbin liner, a bin-liner (see bin n. 8) for use inside a dustbin.
| 1976 S. Wales Echo 26 Nov. 20/7 Black dustbin bags—which can be used on their own or as *dustbin liners—are far more hygienic and convenient. 1984 P. Barker Blow your House Down xi. 70 And all I want her to do is put on a little bit of plastic... Dustbin liner. Anything. |