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super-size returnable-container swindle

Refers to the pathetically-selfish practice of a miser’s offering a naïve fellow human one or more huge trash bags full of returnable containers as payment for his running one or more errands and/or performing some task around the shyster’s house or property, only for the hapless workman to later discover that the bags merely contain a comparatively few very large (i.e., gallon and/or 2-/3-liter) plastic containers, rather than the logically-expected “haul” of many dozens of ordinary-sized glass/plastic drink-bottles and aluminum beverage-cans; he is thus being paid only a small fraction of the “apparent reimbursement” that the gigantic bulging bags had “implied”.
I always insist on either “counting through” bags of bottles/cans before accepting them as payment for something, or having clear-plastic sacks be used to bag up the returnables, so that I can actually see the size/type/number of the containers inside the bags, and thus be more sure of getting the approximate reimbursement that I’ve been led to believe I’d be receiving as my end of the deal... there are waaaay too many advantage-takers out there who are eager to try to pull the ol' "super-size returnable-container swindle" on people like me.
by QuacksO September 9, 2018
mugGet the super-size returnable-container swindlemug.

sea container

A really overweight person, mostly female
Why do people like that sea container's Instagram posts? She's so ugly!
by botermossel July 25, 2024
mugGet the sea containermug.

Contained

Kept within limit until struggling.
Up ☝ through when I was 9, I was contained wearing my Boxer Briefs Underwear!
by Fendzs December 31, 2021
mugGet the Containedmug.

containers for change

Containers for change is a recycling scheme in Australia where you get $0.10 for any cans bottles that have the 10c mark on the back of it
I use containers for change to get pocket money
by zdog_wastaken November 2, 2023
mugGet the containers for changemug.

cunt container

A shitty bar or club that contains all the cunts so they are not in the bars and clubs you want to attend.
That Weatherspoons is a good cunt container though, keeps all the rotters from being in here (elsewhere).
by colouryum October 19, 2015
mugGet the cunt containermug.

sharps container

a greedy vagina that has had more than one penis inside of it
"That girl vagina was like a sharps container. I'm never going back in that one."
by Vita Smart July 17, 2022
mugGet the sharps containermug.

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