Wastebasket 🗑️

Meaning

The Wastebasket emoji 🗑️ features a silver or grey wire-mesh bin, commonly found in office or household settings for discarding paper and light refuse. It is the universal symbol for deleting files or clearing clutter.

People can use this emoji to signal they are tidying up, deleting digital content, or to humorously describe something as "trash" or a "dumpster fire." It is also frequently used by basketball fans to represent a "bucket" or scoring.

Keywords

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• Category: Object
• Added: Oct 26, 2025