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A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

(Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.

(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.

(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

(slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring{{,}} or depressing looking place.

(euphemism) An act of defecation; a defecating.

(in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.

Absence of mind; reverie.

(mining) A pile of ore or rock.

(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

(obsolete) An old kind of dance.{{w|Robert Nares}}, ''A Glossary'', London: Robert Triphook, 1822, p.{{nbsp}}141.[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OjITAAAAQAAJ]

(Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

(marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.

To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.

(computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

(computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.

(informal) To end a romantic relationship with.

(Scotland) To knock heavily; to stump.

To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it

📑 Synonyms: chuck heave Thesaurus:throw

(US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

(AU) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

(archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.

(archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

(Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

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