See dumpster on Wiktionary
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Müllcontainer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Abfallcontainer"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "kádos skoupidión",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κάδος σκουπιδιών"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "kádos aporrimmáton",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κάδος απορριμμάτων"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"roman": "tsfardéa",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "צְפַרְדֵעַ"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "kacrā pātra",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "कचरा पात्र"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "kūṛedān",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "कूड़ेदान"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"word": "kuka"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cassonetto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "caçamba de lixo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "músorka",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "му́сорка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "músornyj kontɛ́jner",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "му́сорный конте́йнер"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kontejner za smeće"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "contenedor de basura/escombros"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"Uruguay",
"feminine"
],
"word": "volqueta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "container"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sopcontainer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "avfallscontainer"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "large trash receptacle",
"word": "hurda konteyneri"
}
],
"word": "dumpster"
}
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"English links with manual fragments",
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"English terms suffixed with -ster",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
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"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
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"2": "dump",
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"nocap": "1"
},
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},
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"name": "surf"
}
],
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"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "dumpstered",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
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{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English transitive verbs"
],
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"To discard or dispose something, especially to throw into a dumpster."
],
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[
"discard",
"discard"
],
[
"dispose",
"dispose"
]
],
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"(slang, transitive) To discard or dispose something, especially to throw into a dumpster."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English slang",
"English transitive verbs"
],
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"To humiliatingly destroy, utterly demolish (an opponent)."
],
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[
"humiliatingly",
"humiliatingly"
],
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"utterly",
"utterly"
],
[
"demolish",
"demolish"
]
],
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"(slang, transitive) To humiliatingly destroy, utterly demolish (an opponent)."
],
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{
"word": "clap"
},
{
"word": "stomp"
}
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of dumpster dive"
],
"links": [
[
"dumpster dive",
"dumpster dive#English"
]
],
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"(slang) Synonym of dumpster dive"
],
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{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "dumpster dive"
}
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈdʌmpstɚ/"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"word": "dumpster"
}
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