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  • noun A barren stretch of ground; wasteland.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, Lemmy is riding about in a tank on wasteground wearing a German army uniform.

    Lemmy: The Movie – Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Some years ago, there was trouble in Old Monkland with gangs meeting to fight on a wasteground there.

    Chav Hunt Jeff 2007

  • But one of the real joys of this entire venture has been the way the wasteground and graffiti and cascades of litter lurking round one corner are more often than not gone when you go round the next; and what is a resoundingly desolate part of London this half hour will always give way to something else, something different, half an hour later.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Alistair Myles 2006

  • But one of the real joys of this entire venture has been the way the wasteground and graffiti and cascades of litter lurking round one corner are more often than not gone when you go round the next; and what is a resoundingly desolate part of London this half hour will always give way to something else, something different, half an hour later.

    Around London IV Alistair Myles 2006

  • It seemed impossible that this lovely girl had been found dead on wasteground and the only way she could be identified was by her breast implants.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • It seemed impossible that this lovely girl had been found dead on wasteground and the only way she could be identified was by her breast implants.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • "If they didn't sell this, I'd have nothing to eat," she said pointing to a woman slicing up offal by a patch of wasteground spattered with raw sewage.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • He directed Cal to park behind some sheds on wasteground.

    Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

  • Only a dozen people had crossed the wasteground since we'd got here and only a few vehicles had come past the corner, all of them with chains on.

    The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978

  • After the heat of the restaurant the air was like cold water thrown in our faces and his teeth began chattering again as I took him half-way down the block and opened up the Trabant and got started, driving north and parallel with the Gromyko Prospekt for half a mile and turning across the wasteground alongside the railway lines with the mirror perfectly clear the whole way.

    The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978

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