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trash drawer

trash drawer noun: a tall drawer, usually found in a kitchen, in which a garbage can or garbage bag can be placed, for the collection and disposal of trash.

Noun

trash drawer (plural trash drawers)

  1. (Canada, US) A tall drawer, usually found in a kitchen, in which a garbage can or garbage bag can be placed, for the collection and disposal of trash.
    • [On a checklist of things to have in the kitchen:] Pull-out cabinet trash drawer2008, Susan Lang, Designing Your Dream Home: Every Question to Ask, Every Detail to Consider, page 182
    • Another very useful kitchen feature is a trash drawer. This is a tall drawer that can house a large trash container.1999, Jeanne Jones, Jeanne Jones' Healthy Cooking: For People Who Don't Have Time To Cook, page 7

Examples of trash drawer in a sentence

  • A pull-out trash drawer gives you a place to hide kitchen waste and recyclables.1996, James A. Hufnagel, Kathie Robitz, Barbara Sabella, Kitchens: design, remodel, build, page 28:
  • And a big trash drawer down below for wastebasket loads.1981, House and Garden, Vol. 153, Issues 1-6, p. 44

Forms of trash drawer

pluraltrash drawers

Questions about trash drawer

What does trash drawer mean?
Trash drawer means a tall drawer, usually found in a kitchen, in which a garbage can or garbage bag can be placed, for the collection and disposal of trash.
How do you use trash drawer in a sentence?
A pull-out trash drawer gives you a place to hide kitchen waste and recyclables.
What part of speech is trash drawer?
Trash drawer is a noun.
What is the plural of trash drawer?
The plural of trash drawer is trash drawers.

Words near trash drawer in the dictionary

  1. trash chutes
  2. trash compactor
  3. trash cymbal
  4. trash cymbals
  5. trash day
  6. trash drawer
  7. trash drawers
  8. trash fire
  9. trash fires
  10. trash fish
  11. trash fishes

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