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It's a large household trash bin with two wheels, a handle, and a lid, usually made out of plastic. You can tilt it onto the wheels for easier transportation. It often has receptacles that a garbage truck can hook into when emptying.
The "wheelie bin" expression is (probably) Irish.
I'm Aussie and we (some of us) call them wheelie bins
Probably in the US we would call them trash cans or trash bins. The term cans presumably goes back to when they were actually round metal cans.