ashcan🔊

A container for collecting ashes, especially from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.

(idiomatic) A dustbin, trash can, or the like.

(slang) A kind of large firecracker.

(informal) To throw out like rubbish; to ditch or trash.

Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.

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