Where does “dumpsterdiving” come from?

dumpsterdiving (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from English dumpster diving — The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.

dumpsterdiving (Norwegian Nynorsk): dumpster diving

Definitions

  1. dumpster diving

Ancestry of “dumpsterdiving”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishdumpster divingThe act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill
Every word from English dumpster diving
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