wastebasket

IPA: wˈeɪstbæskʌt

A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
(figurative, by extension) Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.

waste basket

IPA: wˈeɪstbˈæskʌt

Marian, starting to reach into the waste-basket, refrained.
You can delete bad news instantly, which beats building a bonfire in your waste-basket.
"All right," he announced, tearing the manuscript into half a dozen pieces and throwing it into the waste-basket.
M. Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket.
Any thing dealing with the average American working class or middle class or lower class this Republican government through it in the “waste-basket”.
No out-spread newspapers on the table, no crumpled telegrams in the waste-basket, nothing but the trail of discarded possessions and garments from door to bed.
Instead, he bought a pistol, went home (he and Daugherty were now living at the Wardman Park Hotel), thoughtfully put his head in an iron waste-basket, and blew his brains out.
Because Bothriospondylus was named early in the scientific discovery of sauropods (in 1875), it quickly became a sort of ‘waste-basket’ taxon to which sauropod remains from all over the world were referred.
As such, he was the recipient of lucubrations from countless cranks; but this particular lucubration was so different from the average ruck of similar letters that, instead of putting it into the waste-basket, he had turned it over to a reporter.