dustman
Noun
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Noun
dustman (plural dustmen)
- (British) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
- 1960, Lonnie Donegan, "My Old Man's A Dustman"
- Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman’s hat
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
- Oh, my old man's a dustman
- 1960, Lonnie Donegan, "My Old Man's A Dustman"
- bin man (UK)
- garbage collector (US, Canada)
- garbage man (US, Canada)
- garbo (Australia)
- refuse collector (UK)
- sanitation engineer (US, Canada)
- trashman (US, Canada)
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