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dust box

dust box noun: waste bin, trash can.

Noun

dust box (plural dust boxes)

  1. (Japan) waste bin, trash can

dust box meaning in Tamil

dust box in Tamil

குப்பைத்தொட்டி

Forms of dust box

pluraldust boxes

Origin of dust box

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ダストボックス (dasutobokkusu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from dust + box.

Questions about dust box

What does dust box mean?
Dust box means waste bin, trash can.
What is dust box in Tamil?
Dust box in Tamil is குப்பைத்தொட்டி. See Dust box meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dust box?
Dust box is a noun.
What is the plural of dust box?
The plural of dust box is dust boxes.

Words near dust box in the dictionary

  1. dust beater
  2. dust beaters
  3. dust bin
  4. dust bins
  5. Dust Bowl
  6. dust box
  7. dust boxes
  8. dust bunnies
  9. dust bunny
  10. dust buster
  11. dust busters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dust box (page history and authors); dust box (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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