garbage can

1. 1.

   a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected

   Synonymsashcantrash canwastebinash binash-binashbindustbintrash barreltrash bin

   Broaderbin

Questions about garbage can

What does garbage can mean?

garbage can means "a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected".

What is another word for garbage can?

Close synonyms include ashcan, trash can, wastebin, ash bin, ash-bin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garbage can a common word?

garbage can is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.