junkman
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌŋkˌmæn/
- US
:
reciclador
- Every Saturday, the junkman visits the neighborhood to collect old furniture and appliances.
Examples
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And the junkman's going to put it in the furnace and skwodge it all up till there's nothing left.
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Hey brother Junkman, there's a thing called a splitting maul, and a big former Jarhead such as yourself should get the 12-pounder, especially with those big detailing muscles.
Blog text (32) -
I was a junkman before.
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- The junkman wanted to take it away.
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Mr Coggins is selling it to the junkman.
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The plastic covering of a junkman's shopping cart.
Fiction book (2001) -
If you don't get rid of that trash... I swear I'll give it to the junkman.
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Adele... ...you didn't mean what you said... ...about giving my paintings away to the junkman?
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You're the junkman.
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He did them—called the utilities, telephone company, arranged for the hired dumpster to be picked up, told Denhie Lipscomb, the junkman, he could get the key from his real estate broker to pick up the bed and mattress and clear the remains out of the house.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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5.5
A person who searches through trash for things to reuse or sell
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1.7
A person who collects trash from homes and takes it away
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3.0
A person who collects trash from homes or shops
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2.1
A person who collects and removes trash from homes and businesses
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3.0
A person, company, or machine that collects and prepares used materials to be used again
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4.3
A person or machine that gets rid of waste, especially food scraps
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8.1
A person who collects and fixes old broken things to sell or keep
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3.3
A person who collects trash and looks for things to use again or sell
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9.9
A person who collects old clothes and scraps from streets to sell
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9.9
A person who goes door to door collecting old clothes to sell
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3.1
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes and businesses
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6.1
A person who collects and takes away household rubbish
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4.9
A person who collects rubbish from bins outside homes
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9.5
A person who collects rubbish from outside people's houses
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3.0
A person or company that collects and takes away trash
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8.2
A person who looks through garbage to learn about people's lives
A person who collects and sells scrap metal and old appliances
A person who collects empty metal cans to sell or recycle
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Junkman comes from junk, meaning 'old or worthless things', and man, meaning 'person'. So a junkman is someone who collects, buys, or sells those items, like the person who comes to take away old furniture or broken machines.