Ashcan

Word ASHCAN
Character 6
Hyphenation ashcan
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Definitions and meanings of "Ashcan"

What do we mean by ashcan?

A large, usually metal receptacle for trash. noun

A depth charge. noun

A powerful cylindrical firecracker. noun

A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected. noun

A container for ashes, used in times past for accumulating ashes generated from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere. A dustbin. noun

A kind of large firecracker. noun

Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art. adjective

Early 20th-century United States painting; portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life noun

A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected noun

A container for ashes, used in times past for accumulating ashes generated from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere. A dustbin.

A kind of large firecracker.

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The word "ashcan" in example sentences

Some folks at DC might even have gotten a peek at the "ashcan" story of Captain Thunder. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before the end of 1939, the Fawcett company created some "ashcan" issues of a new comic book, printed without color and hand-bound, to secure its copyrights and to show to potential advertisers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another aspirant franchise was strangled in the cradle of its brutal opening weekend: Green Lantern, starring perennial Nearly-Man Ryan Reynolds, won't be back for a sequel; it's bound for the ashcan of failed franchises, home already to Billy Zane's The Phantom and Ben Affleck's Daredevil. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Put the completed pages together into a cheap ashcan to give away? ❋ Unknown (2009)

She should have been relegated to the ashcan of history a very long time ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Secretly, you knew your good shoes and your warm lined gloves kept you apart, and safe from the man with the cup in his hand and the boy with the cardboard sign and the woman with the bloated legs and the girls with the begging eyes from the weathered madwomen railing at God and the shadows at the ashcan fires from the need to ask, no choices left: ❋ Larissa Shmailo (2012)

Heubert: The ashcan komiks can also double as coloring books. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What he dont understand is that the dems saw his value in the 2000 election and decided to toss his ashcan under the bus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Each person who has a free comic chosen for him/her will also receive a copy of the 2009 Halloween ashcan edition of either Popeye or Casper/Little Lulu or Star Wars. ❋ David S. Carter (2010)

JMG Studios will provide flyers and wall posters for free upon request, and a customized ashcan at a portion of cost to help promote the comic book. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I still have the ashcan edition of 8-Opus #1 on my comic rack~ and have purchased, but not yet read, the first two Godland collections 14 issues worth ? ❋ Chuck Wells (2010)

Now is the time that there is an opportunity to make the big leap, to literally kill the for profit and pseudo non-profit Big Blue health care industry -- to virtually dump the dinosaur in the ashcan of history, where buggy whips, horse carriages, slavery, torture (oops, not so fast on that one) child labor, sweat shops and feudalism have all gone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's past time to ashcan the Republicans, but we still need a party or two of loyal opposition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

South Vietnam's General Thieu rests in the ashcan of history. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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