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pastebin

pastebin noun: a website allowing users to paste and store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere.

Noun

pastebin (plural pastebins)

  1. (Internet) A website allowing users to paste and store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere.
    • For example, if you're stuck with a piece of code or you just want to show off how awesome something you wrote is, then you can paste it into the pastebin and it will give you a link to share with other people. Pastebins usually have built-in […]2013, Callum Macrae, Learning from jQuery, page 100
    • Some pastebins even include syntax highlighting for common programming languages. This can be an appealing advantage when constructing an email with source code in it, or multiple attached log files, […]2015, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Dirk Riehle, Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact

Forms of pastebin

pluralpastebins

Origin of pastebin

From paste + bin.

Questions about pastebin

What does pastebin mean?
Pastebin means a website allowing users to paste and store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere.
What part of speech is pastebin?
Pastebin is a noun.
What is the plural of pastebin?
The plural of pastebin is pastebins.

Words near pastebin in the dictionary

  1. paste-horns
  2. paste-up
  3. paste-ups
  4. paste-wash
  5. pasteable
  6. pastebin
  7. pastebins
  8. pasteboard
  9. pasteboards
  10. pasteboardy
  11. pasted

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