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- noun Plural form of
ashcan .
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Examples
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Used to be that I printed up ashcans at Kinko's, sold 'em for a buck when they cost more than that to make.
Emerald City Abides | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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I'd run close to a hundred of the ashcans the day before so I'd have them available for people at this event, and Hayden had helpfully provided a table near the entrance for those of us that had stuff to give away.
Backstage last Saturday at Comixtravaganza | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Both books are packed with rare items such as sketches, Christmas cards, and reprinted ashcans that have, until now, not been shown to the public.
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I had brought a bunch of our promotional ashcans and I showed one to Dasha's father.
Backstage last Saturday at Comixtravaganza | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Eleanor and I have been using our indie cred to photocopy and staple up a bunch of ashcans.
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Back when I was doing weekly comic book reviews, I'd get lots of free comics and ashcans and even proposals and scripts from people asking me for my opinion.
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One of a multitude of busy ants, forever scrounging the ashcans of talent.
With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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One of a multitude of busy ants, forever scrounging the ashcans of talent.
With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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One of a multitude of busy ants, forever scrounging the ashcans of talent.
With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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I found the place with difficulty and almost by accident, the godown gates were open, and I could see the strange Picasso shapes of the junk-pile by the light of an old lamp: bedsteads, bathtubs, ashcans, the bonnets of cars, stripes of old colour where the light hit.
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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