garbage man
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1.7
- noun
- /ˈɡɑrbɪdʒ mæn/
- US
:
recolector de basura
- Before he left last Sunday night, Gort must have carried them all out the front door and piled them at the curb for the garbage men.
- garbage men take
- garbage man who picked
- garbage man came
And then the if the garbage man doesn't come, what happens?
- And then the if the garbage man doesn't come, what happens?
- Even though Troy is a garbage man, he is a giant in his life.
- What kind of gear is a New York City garbage man?
- Yeah, in your in the modern day version, probably another garbage man.
- You know, he's he's garbage man he's sanitation, he's bartending whatever he can to support me and and my mom.
Examples
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During his first summer in the park in 1969, working as a garbage man, he tacked a topographic map of Yellowstone above his bed.
Blog text (12) -
I said, "it looks like the garbage man forgot to take out the trash."
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Mine is a small town garbage man with nothing to lose.
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You clean up pretty well for a garbage man.
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I am the garbage man.
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You know, nobody was in it, so the garbage man will come and pick it up.
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And honestly, my brother was a garbage man and made more than I do now.
Blog text (8) -
The garbage men take the cans off the Tortoise's back and dump them into the truck.
Fiction book (1994) -
Garbage men down a block wordlessly fed black bags into the beetle-backed hydraulic pits of their crunching, beeping machines.
Fiction book (1998) -
Every Thursday, I watch the garbage man collect the bins from the street.
Synonyms
6
3.0
A person who collects trash from homes or shops
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
2.8
A woman who collects and takes away trash from homes and streets
1
9.5
A person who collects rubbish from outside people's houses
1
3.0
A person or company that collects and takes away trash
A woman who collects trash from homes and shops
A person who collects and takes away rubbish from homes
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a man whose job is to collect and dispose of garbage' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'garbage' (waste) with 'man' (person), following a common English noun+noun occupational compounding pattern. This compositional logic is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The compound noun garbage man comes from a simple picture: the garbage, meaning trash, and the man who takes it away. That's why it means 'a man whose job is to collect and dispose of garbage'.