dumpster diving
(US) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.
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I’ll be truthful here it’s this very point, back when the trend of callouts & other shaming started, I was trying to make then. Yes, by all means, yuck behavior needs to be called out. But dumpster diving into one’s p…
We never did get to play them yet but here are our Monsterhearts, my wife's fujoshi ghoul and my feral catboy fae as he introduces her to the joys of dumpster diving
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(US) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.
Alan crawled to the back of the store, to Kurt’s den, sure that his friend would have been back there, worn out from a night’s dumpster diving.
“I’ll be truthful here it’s this very point, back when the trend of callouts & other shaming started, I was trying to make then. Yes, by all means, yuck behavior needs to be called out. But dumpster diving into one’s past is a bit much & really hecking creepy IMHO 1/?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“We never did get to play them yet but here are our Monsterhearts, my wife's fujoshi ghoul and my feral catboy fae as he introduces her to the joys of dumpster diving”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(slang) An act or expedition of dumpster diving.
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(slang, transitive, intransitive) To practice dumpster diving.
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(US, slang) A person who practices dumpster diving.
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A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill or recycling sites.
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(Canada, US) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.