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"trash can" is a correct and usable term in written English
It is typically used to refer to bins specifically meant for throwing away rubbish. For example: "We need to remember to take the trash can out to the curb on Wednesday night."
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trash can
noun
A receptacle which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
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The trash can.
The trash can quickly fills.
Try sweeping away a trash can.
Rest-stop trash can? Curbside mailbox?
Raising tilapia in a trash can.
I'll be filling the trash can shortly.
Toss it in the trash can?
It's just a trash can, after all.
"Tomorrow, it's in the trash can".
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Trash-can bonfires raged every twenty feet.
They had the trash-can fires going.
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