WPB

English

Alternative forms

• wpb, w.p.b.

Noun

WPB (plural WPBs)

1. Initialism of wastepaper basket.
   • 1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, vol. 16, no. 20:

     And then there was a sort of sensation at the door and in came Margaret Thatcher. Rab’s shell crackled and contracted a little, as he tried to look flattered by the attention of his new leader: she whose whole purpose it was to cram Butskellism as harshly as possible into the WPB of history.

Anagrams

• PWB, pbw