DISCARD, DISCARDED
ADJECTIVES
► BEACHED laid aside, discarded; unemployed → 1955
► JUNKED discarded, abandoned; scrapped → 1915
NOUNS
► MONGO any discarded object that is retrieved → 1980s US sl.
► OFFCAST something discarded → 1854 Amer. dial.
► PLUNDER disused or discarded articles that are kept around; junk → 1843 Amer. dial.
► WAIF-AND-STRAY homeless vagrants; flotsam and jetsam, useless or discarded objects; strayed cattle of unknown ownership → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► ASHCAN to throw in an ashcan; to discard, to throw away, to get rid of → 1938 Amer. sl.
► BACK-NUMBER to treat as a ‘back number’; to set aside as useless; to discard → 1924 colloq.
► CASHIER to discard, to get rid off, to banish a thing → 1603
► CAST TO THE DOGS to send to destruction or ruin; to throw out, to discard as worthless → 1556 obs.
► CHUCK AWAY to discard → 1999 (Bk.)
► CHUNK to discard, to throw away → 1872 African-American sl.
► CONSIGN TO THE ASHCAN to dispose of, to get rid of, to discard to forget about → 1906
► DECART to discard → a1572 Sc. obs.
► DECK to discard, to cast out → 1781 Eng. dial.
► DITCH of people and objects: to throw away, to dispense with, to abandon, to discard, to jilt → 1899 sl.
► DUST ► DUST OFF to bring to ruin; to defeat, to kill; to discard, to get rid of → 1938 sl., orig. US
► GIVE THE SWORD to discard as broken or no longer useful → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► GO TO THE ASHCAN to be discarded or forgotten about → 1942
► JUNK to treat as junk or rubbish; to scrap, to throw away; to discard, to abandon, to get rid of → 1911
► MAKE AWAY WITH to throw away or discard as useless → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NEGLECT to leave out, to omit, to discard → 1603 obs.
► SEND TO THE DOGS to send to destruction or ruin; to throw out, to discard as worthless → 1556
► SHITCAN to throw away; to discard; to reject as worthless → sl.
► SHOOT OUT to throw away, to discard → 2000 Amer. dial.
► SHOOT THE HAT to discard, to get rid of → 1877 sl.
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