Definitions for wastebasket

wastebasket waste·bas·ket

Spelling: [weyst-bas-kit, -bah-skit]
IPA: /ˈweɪstˌbæs kɪt, -ˌbɑ skɪt/

Wastebasket is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 378 anagrams from letters in wastebasket (aabeekssttw).

Definitions for wastebasket

noun

  1. a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.

Origin of wastebasket

First recorded in 1855-60; waste + basket

Examples for wastebasket

Daniel knocked the ashes from his pipe into the wastebasket.

Years ago I must have laughed at it, when I threw my only copy into the wastebasket.

Not because he tried to use company money to purchase, among other items, a $1,400 wastebasket, but because he got caught.

It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.

I rummaged in the wastebasket and uncrumpled the morning's facsimile newspaper.

"Oh, here's your handkerchief," she said quietly, taking it from the bottom of her wastebasket.

What did you do—go through his wastebasket and find his pay stub?

These might readily have been consigned to the depths of the wastebasket unopened, unread.

Beard nodded, and without another word, Kenney flung the work into the wastebasket.

Well, ultimately, the screenplay is the only part of a movie that you can fit into a wastebasket.

Word Value for wastebasket
Scrable

20

Words with friends

21

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