trashpaper
nounEtymology From trash + paper.
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Paper that has been trashed, thrown away.
- Compress 8 barrels of trashpaper into one ... E-Z BALER! Eliminate the dangerous, unsanitary, unsightly clutter of loose trashpaper with the new, improved E-Z BALER.1959, Modern Maintenance Management, page 82:
- Trashpaper compressor (1 EL-8)1960, Hospitals: The Journal of the American Hospital Association, page 83:
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- It is estimated that Americans generate 5 lb. of trashpaper, bottles, cans—per person per day.1969, Product Engineering, page 21:
- During the only visit to the art table, five component acts were dealt with in a cluster: the table was washed, the trashpaper and paintbrushes were picked up, and the two nearby plants were watered (Cluster 7).1984 March, Roy D. Pea, D. Midian Kurland, Logo Programming and the Development of Planning Skills (Technical Report No. 16), page 46:
- Fittingly unable to read, Krook selfishly guards his collection of trashpaper, corresponding to the legal documents his “brother” keeps in Chancery.1989, University of Hartford Studies in Literature, pages 41–42:
- Rusted watertanks in a yard strewn with trashpapers the wind had left.1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain: