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/rˈəbɪʃ hip/ Listen

Rubbish heap

noun

An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter. Synonyms: garbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, scrapheap, trash heap, trash pile.

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"Rubbish heap" Quotes from Famous Books

... old man; she even went out of her way if she caught sight of him inside a wineshop, so as to not anger him; and she waited at home till he returned, listening at night-time to hear if he was snoring outside the door. He would sleep on a rubbish heap, or on a seat, or in a piece of waste land, or across a gutter. On the morrow, after having only badly slept off his booze of the day before, he would start off again, knocking at the doors of all the consolation dealers, plunging afresh into a furious ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... in the room he had loved, the Dead Man looked about him at the dear old bits of furniture and ornaments that had meant so much to him and whose fate he had just heard weighed between auctioneer's hammer and rubbish heap. ...

— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco

Words linked to "Rubbish heap" : dumpsite, garbage dump, dump, waste-yard, wasteyard, rubbish dump, trash dump