"wastebasket" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From waste + basket.",
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        "A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin."
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          "receptacle",
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          "discard",
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          "rubbish bin",
          "rubbish bin"
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          "ref": "2017, Russell Tuttle, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 122:",
          "text": "The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.",
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          "text": "For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]",
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        "Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless."
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        "(figurative, by extension) Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless."
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  "word": "wastebasket"
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  "etymology_text": "From waste + basket.",
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      "form": "wastebasketed",
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          "text": "ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography\nI was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it."
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        "To discard in a wastebasket."
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        "(transitive) To discard in a wastebasket."
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        {
          "word": "wastepaper basket"
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        "(transitive) To discard in a wastebasket."
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