binned

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of bin.

   The researchers binned the survey ages into five-year groups.

   Her first draft was binned after the editor read two pages.

   Note

   The n doubles before -ed, and one spelling covers past tense and participle alike. Register depends on which bin is meant: binned for thrown out or rejected is British and informal (the whole plan was binned), while binned for data split into ranges is neutral and at home in a research paper.

2. 2
   adjective

   Of components, sorted out during production for their good or bad qualities and grouped with similar parts.

   Binned processors that run cooler than the rest are sold as the premium model.

   The supplier ships its binned LEDs in batches matched for brightness and color.

   Similargraded, sorted

3. 3
   adjectiveslang

   In a drunken state; intoxicated from drinking alcohol.

   They'd been at the bar since noon and were absolutely binned by six.

   He got so binned at the wedding that he can't remember the speeches.

   Similardrunk, wasted, hammered, plastered, smashed

   Oppositesober

   Note

   A slang word that belongs among friends, not in a report. It describes people, usually after be or get, and it likes an intensifier in front: in Sally Rooney's Normal People (2018), one character predicts that the others will be absolutely binned by the time they arrive. In neutral writing, drunk says the same thing.

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