trash barrel

1. 1.

   a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected

   Synonymsashcantrash cangarbage canwastebinash binash-binashbindustbintrash bin

   Broaderbin

Questions about trash barrel

What does trash barrel mean?

trash barrel means "a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected".

What is another word for trash barrel?

Close synonyms include ashcan, trash can, garbage can, wastebin, 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 trash barrel a common word?

trash barrel 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.