garbageman
6
3.0
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒˌmæn/
- US
:
hombre de la basura
- As she was thinking about this, she happened to look out the window and noticed the garbageman emptying their can into the truck, and the box was on top.
Examples
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I was a newspaper delivery guy, a garbageman.
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You're gonna pick up the mess because you are a garbageman.
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You were a garbageman, right?
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You should be a garbageman the way you pick up every card I throw down.
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You want to be a garbageman?
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Give it to the garbageman!
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Max owned the official title of garbageman.
Fiction book (2000) -
He would be working as a garbageman in two weeks!
Blog text (6) -
You're a garbageman in the corporation!
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The garbageman collected our trash every Tuesday morning.
Synonyms
19
1.7
A person who collects trash from homes and takes it away
4
2.1
A person who collects and removes trash from homes and businesses
1
3.3
A person who collects trash and looks for things to use again or sell
1
3.1
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes and businesses
1
6.1
A person who collects and takes away household rubbish
1
4.9
A person who collects rubbish from bins outside homes
1
3.0
A person or company that collects and takes away trash
1
9.5
A person who collects rubbish from outside people's houses
1
2.8
A woman who collects and takes away trash from homes and streets
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes
A woman who collects trash from homes and shops
How Formal
- Specialized
1
4.3
- UK
1
3.1
- US
4
2.1
- US
- US
6
3.0
- US
1
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word garbageman comes from two simple parts, garbage and man, where garbage means 'rubbish' or 'waste'. So a garbageman is the person who collects and takes away rubbish, like the driver of the big truck that empties your bins.