wheelie bin

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/ˈwiːli bɪn/
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A large lidded rubbish or recycling container on wheels, usually kept outside and rolled out for council or municipal collection.
Practice using wheelie bin in conversation until it feels natural

Examples

  • The restaurant uses larger wheelie bins behind the kitchen.
  • The recycling wheelie bin has a blue lid.
  • Rows of wheelie bins lined the pavement after the morning collection.
  • After pruning the hedge, she filled the garden waste wheelie bin.
  • Put the wheelie bin out by the kerb before collection day.

Similar words

refuse bin
garbage bin
waste bin
wheeled bin
dustbin
rubbish bin

Meanings

Outdoor wheeled rubbish container

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A large lidded bin on wheels, kept outside homes or businesses for rubbish, recycling, or garden waste and rolled to the kerb for collection.

Examples

  • Put the wheelie bin out by the kerb before collection day.
  • The recycling wheelie bin has a blue lid.
  • A fox knocked over the wheelie bin during the night.
  • The restaurant uses larger wheelie bins behind the kitchen.
  • After pruning the hedge, she filled the garden waste wheelie bin.
  • The council replaced the cracked wheelie bin with a 240-litre one.
  • Rows of wheelie bins lined the pavement after the morning collection.

Similar words

wheeled bin
rubbish bin
refuse bin
waste bin
garbage bin
dustbin

Etymology

Formed in English from wheelie, meaning fitted with wheels, and bin. The phrase spread with wheeled household refuse collections in Britain and Australia in the 1980s.

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