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🗑️wastebasket

🗑️ wastebasket belongs to Objects. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

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Meaning

A wastebasket, often used to represent trash, garbage, or throwing things away.

Aliases

:wastebasket:

Keywords

cangarbagetrashwastewastebasket

What does 🗑️ wastebasket mean?

Depicts a traditional wire mesh wastebasket, commonly used to represent trash, garbage, or recycling. It can be used literally when discussing cleaning up or taking out the trash, or figuratively to indicate discarding an idea, file, or message. Depending on context, it may also refer to deleting digital items.

Often used for

Taking out the garbage or cleaning up
Deleting files, emails, or messages
Dismissing an idea or plan as bad
Discussing recycling or waste management

Tone: It can carry a dismissive or negative tone when used figuratively to reject ideas, potentially coming across as blunt in professional settings.

🗑️ in real messages

don't forget to take out the trash before you leave 🗑️
i just deleted all those old emails 🗑️
that idea belongs in the garbage 🗑️
cleaning out my closet today, so much stuff to throw away 🗑️
moved the bad draft to the trash bin 🗑️

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How 🗑️ wastebasket looks

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🗑️ wastebasket codes for developers

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Emoji	`🗑️`
Unicode codepoints	`U+1F5D1 U+FE0F`
HTML (decimal)	`🗑️`
HTML (hex)	`🗑️`
CSS	`\1F5D1\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F5D1}\u{FE0F}`
JSON	`\uD83D\uDDD1\uFE0F`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%97%91%EF%B8%8F`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:wastebasket:`