ashcan

From ash +‎ can.

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ashcan (plural ashcans)

1. A container for collecting ashes, especially from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.
2. A dustbin, trash can, or the like.
   • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 32:

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

3. (US, slang) A kind of large firecracker.

• ashcan of history

ashcan (third-person singular simple present ashcans, present participle ashcanning, simple past and past participle ashcanned)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw out like rubbish; to ditch or trash.

ashcan (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.
2. Describing a comic book originally published solely to retain ownership of a trademark, not intended for general release; later used for promotional comic books intended for limited release to the public.