ashcan

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  1. noun A large, usually metal receptacle for trash.
  2. noun Slang A depth charge.
  3. noun Slang A powerful cylindrical firecracker.

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  • And of course, there will always be enterprising and ambitious creators willing to self-publish their work, even if it means heading down to Kinko's and photocopying ashcan books. —  Blog@Newsarama
  • February 2nd, 2009 - Radical Publishing will give away a special limited and numbered 3-D edition of its New York Comic-Con ashcan to convention-goers who attend its all-star preview panel at the show. —  ComicList Headlines
  • Radical Publishing will give away a special limited and numbered 3-D edition of its New York Comic-Con ashcan to convention-goers who attend its all-star preview panel at the show. —  Major Spoilers
  • With a kind of verve no doubt fed by digital culture, sci-fi, "post-abstract" painting and the punk, new-wave and hip-hop music that fuel his age rather than the ashcan / surrealism / tragedy / jazz diet his AbEx predecessors noshed on, Tomory Dodge, in his latest work, makes barely imagistic images comprising mostly color, shape, gesture and plays of surface. —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
  • We†™ re still digging out from under the 300 bills Governor Schwarzenegger signed or vetoed yesterday before the midnight deadline he faced to put his final imprint on what became law in the 2007-2008 legislative session or ended in the ashcan. —  California Progress Report
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