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wheelie bin

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A wheelie bin is a large rubbish container on wheels. Put out the wheelie bin.

It changed collection entirely, since one person and a lorry replaced a crew carrying sacks. A wheelie bin left out on the wrong day is the commonest complaint any council receives.

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Definitions of wheelie bin

  1. 1nounwheelie binA large rubbish container on wheels.B1

    “The wheelie bin went out on a Thursday and came back on a Friday.”

wheelie bin is a container.

Where it comes from

Wheelie plus bin; the design came from Germany in the 1970s and reached Britain in the 1980s.

From wheelie + bin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Containers & Packaging

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