dumpster-dive AmE

In other words, he has no need to dumpster-dive to make a living.

What I do is Dumpster-dive in the data, then extrapolate and deduce.

I asked myself, 'Am I going to Dumpster-dive like the others?

They Dumpster-dive for food, mend their clothing with dental floss and brew dandelion wine.

The film shows Ted doing his daily dumpster-dive, collecting cans for the day's food, cigarettes and beer, when he finds a briefcase amongst the rubbish.

"Would you like a Dumpster-dive bagel?"

If he had to rent, he liked to live close to a supermarket so he could dumpster-dive and bring home steaks with freezer burn.

I dumpster-dive for 'em.

So they squat in buildings rather than rent or own, dumpster-dive for their food, walk or bicycle everywhere they can, turn abandoned city lots into community gardens.

The second, “Extreme Cheapskates,” is a special on Wednesday, about people who barter, Dumpster-dive and forage for free goods and services.

(trademark: might be becoming genericized) large trash receptacle (UK approx.: skip [DM]); to dumpster-dive, to rummage through a Dumpster

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "dumpster diving" is chiefly found in American English and first appeared in print in 1983, with the verb "dumpster-dive" appearing a few years later.

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