| 单词 | garbage man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarbage man garbage man n. chiefly North American a person (esp. a man) employed to collect garbage, esp. household waste, for disposal. ΚΠ 1855 Rep. Commissioner Health in Ordinances of Mayor & City Council of Baltimore App. 77 Seldom are domestic arrangements made for the day, without including in the catalogue the visit of the garbage man. 1857 N.Y. Daily Times 16 June 8/3 Great was the astonishment of the garbage men when they ascertained, but too late, that they had dumped a barrel full of eggs, fresh from the market, into their cart. 1897 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 4 Aug. 7/3 I'll tell you a secret. I used to be a garbage man. 2005 West Austral. (Perth) 22 Dec. 13/3 Since people began putting bins out on the verge themselves and collecting the garbage became more mechanised, fewer people gave something to their local garbage man over Christmas. < as lemmas |
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