wastebasket

waste +‎ basket

wastebasket (plural wastebaskets)

1. A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.

• See also Thesaurus:waste bin

wastebasket (third-person singular simple present wastebaskets, present participle wastebasketing, simple past and past participle wastebasketed)

1. (transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.
   • ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography

     I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.

• wastepaper basket