If you don't blow your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.
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Spittoon
/spɪˈtuːn/
Synonyms for "spittoon" (6 found)
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6 entriesceramic spittoonmetal spittoonplastic spittoonporcelain spittoonspittoon lidspittoon stand
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6 total sentences available.
Jim Poland—for such was the big man's name—growled and spat reflectively into a spittoon.
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In the only arm-chair which the apartment boasted—one of the legs of which was shorter than the other three, and to remedy that defect was ingeniously stuck into an iron spittoon—sat the young man Mr. Pascoe had come to visit, very unlike, it must be confessed, any "portraits of a gentleman" one ever saw in the exhibition of the Royal Academy.
Source: wiktionary
For use in public institutions, in corridors and grounds, I would recommend an elevated spittoon, which has numerous advantages over the ordinary spittoon placed on the floor.
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