Other forms: dustbins
A dustbin is the container household rubbish is put in. Put out the dustbin.
The dust in it was ash from coal fires, which was the bulk of household waste for a century. The dustbin of history is the standard phrase for where discarded ideas go.
1noundustbinThe container household rubbish is put in.
“The dustbin went out on a Tuesday for forty years.”
dustbin is a container.
Dust plus bin, from the ash and cinders that filled it when houses burned coal.
From dust + bin, as used for disposing of dust (originally ash from domestic fires) and other rubbish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA