Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who compacts or unites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes a compact.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
comparative form ofcompact : morecompact - noun Something that
compacts things (e.g. trash) - noun One who makes a
compact or agreement.
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Examples
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Orlando feeling like its collective heart had just been put in the trash compacter.
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I know at our store we have diverted 2 or 3 pallets per day from going in the compacter to instead now going on a truck to the food bank.
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There are no plot surprises in this movie, but then, at 17 YOA, the only thing in Star Wars that really surprised me was Princess Leia blowing a hole in the prison block wall, and the heroes ending up in a trash compacter.
Avatar The Brillig Blogger 2009
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When workers at the resort realized the trash hadn't yet been sent to that big industrial-sized compacter.
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It's the music along with the amazing Pixar animation that makes you want to connect to this little trash compacter.
Matt Budd: Wall-E -- How a Robot and Music Make Us Human 2008
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“Sure it will,” I assured her as we tipped, rearranged, and shoved in the items tighter than garbage in a trash compacter.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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“Sure it will,” I assured her as we tipped, rearranged, and shoved in the items tighter than garbage in a trash compacter.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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“Sure it will,” I assured her as we tipped, rearranged, and shoved in the items tighter than garbage in a trash compacter.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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“Sure it will,” I assured her as we tipped, rearranged, and shoved in the items tighter than garbage in a trash compacter.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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May 22, 2006, 6: 14 pm phentermine buy says: phentermine buy obviating jotting: offense forwarder compacter
The Volokh Conspiracy » Washington Post Corrects Itself as to Guinier: 2004
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