trash-bin

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English

Verb

trash-bin (third-person singular simple present trash-bins, present participle trash-binning, simple past and past participle trash-binned)

  1. To trash, throw out, discard; (computing) to delete (a file, etc).
    • 2002 May 8, Clay Colwell, “Yardhelp:”, in austin.general (Usenet):
      Your request to know explicit details about my sex life is noted, ridiculed, and trashbinned.
    • 2005, Mario Rinvolucri, “Unleashing Writing Creativity in Students”, in English Teaching Forum, volume 43, number 3, page 42:
      I can think of a few colleagues who flagellate themselves into trash-binning fully adequate text. If these folk had the same neurosis in their cooking, they would starve to death!