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Webster 1913 Edition
dustman
dust′man
(dŭst′măn)
, Noun.
pl.
dustmen
(dŭst′mĕn)
. One whose employment is to remove dirt and refuse; a garbage man.
Gay.
Definition 2024
dustman
dustman
English
Noun
dustman (plural dustmen)
- (Britain) Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
- 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 - Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man's A Dustman
Synonyms
- bin man (UK)
- garbage collector (US, Canada)
- garbage man (US, Canada)
- garbo (Australia)
- refuse collector (UK)
- sanitation engineer (US, Canada)
- trashman (US, Canada)
Translations
garbage collector — see garbage collector