trashman
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈtræʃˌmæn/
- US
:
recolector de basura
- Every week, the trashman sorts through the recycling bins to ensure proper disposal.
So maybe that's a window into that world, you know, where Travis can be trying to figure out who he is while being a trash worker trashman.
- So maybe that's a window into that world, you know, where Travis can be trying to figure out who he is while being a trash worker trashman.
Examples
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♪ My... father was a trashman, ♪ ♪ Trashman, trashman.
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After working as a trashman for years, he found many items that could be reused or sold.
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My father was a trashman.
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And I told that trashman to be careful with that big old truck the way it blocks the road.
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Every one of the trashman's customers.
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♪ My... father was a trashman, ♪ ♪ Trashman, trashman.
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♪ My... father was a trashman, ♪ ♪ Trashman, trashman.
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No matter how many times Larry told me how good a job I was doing and how important it was to keep the job site clean because it reflected on the company, I knew I was a $15-an-hour trashman who occasionally got to carry lumber or take nails out of boards, and though I was just as cold as anyone else and my clothes were just as dirty, when I came into the locker room for coffee break, I didn't feel like I'd earned it.
Fiction book (1995) -
The trashman arrived early in the morning to collect the garbage from the neighborhood.
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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9.9
A person who collects old clothes and scraps from streets to sell
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8.1
A person who collects and fixes old broken things to sell or keep
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8.1
A person who often collects small old things other people discard
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9.9
A person who goes door to door collecting old clothes to sell
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5.1
A person who collects old things to sell or throw away
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8.2
A person who looks through garbage to learn about people's lives
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3.1
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes and businesses
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4.9
A person who collects rubbish from bins outside homes
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6.1
A person who collects and takes away household rubbish
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2.8
A woman who collects and takes away trash from homes and streets
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3.0
A person or company that collects and takes away trash
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9.5
A person who collects rubbish from outside people's houses
A person who collects empty metal cans to sell or recycle
A person who collects old broken things and fixes them for fun
A person who collects and sells scrap metal and old appliances
A person or animal who searches through messy things like bins to find useful items
A person who collects litter from places like beaches or parks
A person or machine that takes useful materials from waste to use again
A woman who collects trash from homes and shops
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes
How Respectable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trashman comes from trash ('rubbish') plus -man (a person who does a job), so it originally meant someone who collects or looks through rubbish to find things to reuse or sell.