dump
n. countablen. a place where people take their trash to leave it. It is also a slang word for a house or room that is very messy or ugly.
n. a site for depositing rubbish or waste material. In informal register, it refers to an unpleasant, dilapidated, or poorly maintained location.
We took the old sofa to the city dump.
I cannot believe he pays so much rent for that apartment; it is a total dump.
The local council faced significant public backlash after proposing a new chemical dump within five miles of the protected wetlands.
From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.
See dumpling.
Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).
Often used with the definite article ('the dump') when referring to a specific local waste facility.