trashbox

English

Etymology

From trash +‎ box.

Noun

trashbox (plural trashboxes)

1. A receptacle for trash.
   • 1967, Joyce Carol Oates, A garden of earthly delights, page 123:

     Sitting on a trashbox at a coiner was an old man in rags, and Carleton forced his shoulders back in a gesture of contempt for this old bastard — he would never be like that.

   • 2007, Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood: A Novel, →ISBN:

     He had his army suit put in a paper sack and he stuffed it into a trashbox on the corner.

2. (computing) An electronic folder for deleted electronic mail.
   • 1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 52:

     Liam shook his head, and clicked on inbox. Wasn't much in it, or in the outbox, or in the trashbox.

3. Synonym of flophouse
   • 2014, Gary R. Hartman, Roy M. Mersky, Cindy L. Tate, Landmark Supreme Court Cases, →ISBN:

     In the course of his statement to the investigating police officers, defendant Griffin admitted that he had left the trashbox when he heard who he thought was a night watchman pass by.