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In some senses, ashcan is marked as slang, informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A container for collecting ashes, especially from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.
A dustbin, trash can, or the like.
He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table.
A kind of large firecracker.
verb
To throw out like rubbish; to ditch or trash.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.
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.