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dump bin, n.

DRAFT ENTRY June 2010

Brit. /dmp bn/, U.S. /dmp bn/  [< DUMP v.¹ or (in sense 2) DUMP n.⁴ + BIN n.] 

    1. Marketing. A free-standing cardboard display unit used for the promotional display of retail items (now esp. paperback books).

1961 Grocer 4 Nov. 36/3 Doubling the selling space..was not..the greatest expense. It was the..new sectional shelving, eight dump bins, and..the new self-service refrigerator 1972 Statistician 21 165 The promotion was displayed in a dump bin and the standard stock was left on the shelf. 1984 Bookseller 7 July 62/3 Unusual [sic] for a hardback, there will be dumpbins, since ‘it will sell like a paperback,’ says OUP. 1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Review section) 14/2 Will money be spent on a poster for bookshop windows, will there be advertising in newspapers or the sides of buses, will the author be sent on a book tour, will there be dumpbins in shops or a free paperback with a glossy magazine like Elle or Marie-Claire?

    2. Any (usually large) open receptacle used for the deposit of waste or the storage of goods.

1978 S. KING Stand xxxv. 303 Sprawled in the back of one of the dump-bins was the crow-picked body of what had once been a man. 1981 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Feb. 136 In the new refinery, the skips from No. 1 shaft will dump into 45 t capacity skip dump bins. 1986 New Yorker 7 July 21/2 We scrambled down a ramp, dodged around a dump bin. 1996 Independent 11 Nov. II. 2/3 The floor of the children's section was painted with hopscotch squares, respectable middle-aged women handed their bags to their companions, did a skippety-jump and headed, smiling, straight for the strategically placed dump bins of extra yellow shoulder sacks.

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