trashpaper
trashpaper noun: paper that has been trashed, thrown away.
Noun
trashpaper (plural trashpapers)
- Paper that has been trashed, thrown away.
- Compress 8 barrels of trashpaper into one ... E-Z BALER! Eliminate the dangerous, unsanitary, unsightly clutter of loose trashpaper with the new, improved E-Z BALER.1959, Modern Maintenance Management, page 82
- Trashpaper compressor (1 EL-8)1960, Hospitals: The Journal of the American Hospital Association, page 83
Examples of trashpaper in a sentence
- It is estimated that Americans generate 5 lb. of trashpaper, bottles, cans—per person per day.1969, Product Engineering, page 21:
- Fittingly unable to read, Krook selfishly guards his collection of trashpaper, corresponding to the legal documents his “brother” keeps in Chancery.1989, University of Hartford Studies in Literature, pages 41–42:
- Rusted watertanks in a yard strewn with trashpapers the wind had left.1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain:
- Damn it all to hell, get rid of that trashpaper.2009, Michal Kobialka, “The Dead Class: Selections from the Partytura (1974)”, in Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre...
Forms of trashpaper
| plural | trashpapers |
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Origin of trashpaper
From trash + paper.
Questions about trashpaper
- What does trashpaper mean?
- Trashpaper means paper that has been trashed, thrown away.
- How do you use trashpaper in a sentence?
- It is estimated that Americans generate 5 lb. of trashpaper, bottles, cans—per person per day.
- What part of speech is trashpaper?
- Trashpaper is a noun.
- What is the plural of trashpaper?
- The plural of trashpaper is trashpapers.
Words near trashpaper in the dictionary
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