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Word: dumpster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fresh plump strawberries ($5), and shows off her hot-off-the-shelves purchase, a thrift-store turquoise dress with a brown stain to boot ($6 or $7, she estimates). “I am a hypocrite,” she says, adding that she’s tried dumpster-diving and sewing her own clothes. “To right now divorce myself entirely from the market economy and to retreat into a cottage somewhere to grow my own food and feel less guilty about myself...would be a very insular way to make myself feel good...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: J. Claire Provost | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...finding a convenient, theft-proof parking spot. "When you can find a safe parking spot on the street, it's often 100 feet or more from your destination; and if there is secure bike parking, it's usually behind the building near the weeds next to a trash dumpster," says Russ Roca, a local photographer who doesn't own a car and hauls up to 200 pounds of equipment on his bike's trailer attachment. "Bike riders are treated like social pariahs and second-class citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Valet Parking Could Save the Planet | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...SHREDDER They cost as little as $15, and you'll never have to worry about Dumpster divers, who sift the trash for discarded financial statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: 'Tis the Season for ID Theft | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

Dunster House: 1. Also known as “Dumpster House.” 2. The building shown on every postcard that you will send home...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...Guerolito” have anything new to say in their final products. After all, what’s the point in remixing a remix?The disappointment is astonishing, given that most of the technicians at the mixing boards are currently at the top of their game: Philly dumpster-diving prodigy Diplo, sexy French electroboys Air, and not one, but two splinter-groups from one-album wonders the Unicorns, to name a few.Two more poppy Frenchmen, Octet, steal the show by recasting bubblegum gem “Girl” as a melodramatic aria, sung at the climax...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guerolito | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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