wastebasket

Noun

 * 1) A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
 * 2)  Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:waste bin

Verb

 * 1)  To discard in a wastebasket.
 * 2) * 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.