Meaning of ashcan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A container for collecting ashes, especially from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.
2. A dustbin, trash can, or the like.
3. A kind of large firecracker.
   US, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table.”

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