bin

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to store in a container

   I binned my clothes for a while, but I stopped after I realized that it caused the clothes to wrinkle.

2. 2
   noun

   A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

   a corn bin

3. 3
   noun

   A container for rubbish or waste.

   a rubbish bin

4. 4
   noun

   Jail or prison.

   Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in

5. 5
   noun

   Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).

   At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worker".

6. 6
   verb

   To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

   He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.

7. 7
   verb

   To throw away, reject, give up.

   This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]

8. 8
   verb

   To place into a bin for storage.

   to bin wine

Etymology

From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").