![]() ![]() ![]() That said, the use of 'can' for the receptacle itself was once much more common, and while I grew up using only the term 'dustbin', my Gran would more commonly say 'ash can/bin'. In Britain, 'trash' is called 'rubbish', and a 'trash can' is either a 'rubbish/recycling bin' * or, more usually, just a 'bin'. The most common UK experience of the noun-form 'trash' is in software, where the term 'Trash Can' still sometimes describes what is now more often called the 'Recycle Bin'. In the UK we never see raccoons in the wild, so we have no concept of seeing them hanging around domestic buildings, and in addition, few of us would by preference use the noun 'trash', either - although we do use the adjective 'trashy', meaning 'low-quality, cheap, and/or overly showy'. Click to expand.Well, perhaps for US English exponents, since raccoons are native only to the Americas. ![]()
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