Definition of junkman in English:
junkman
nounPlural junkmenˈdʒʌŋkmən
North American A person who travels round an area buying old or unwanted clothes and household items in order to resell them.
I sold a cupboard like this to the junkman years ago
Example sentencesExamples
- The third-generation junkman has everything arranged in a way that reveals the eye of an artist; wonderful assemblages that combine necessity and art.
- Does anybody remember a TV movie that starred Andy Griffith as a junkman who wanted to collect everything that was left on the moon for profit?
- Home to nearly 2 million people, the neighborhood is a gritty tapestry of mechanics, metal grinders, junkmen and laborers.
- He was famous for playing a junkman in the sitcom "Steptoe and Son".
- The brick was bought from junkmen and carefully laid into the living room wall.
- He says he was destined to work as a ciruja, or junkman, from the cradle.
- A visit to a junk yard provided several items they were able to repair and after several barters, they provided the junkman with the cord of wood he wanted.
- Within ten years of entering the country, he rose from driving a wagon for a Newark junkman for $10 a week to establishing his own yard.
- All the ledgers and journals containing the financial history of the Metropolitan since its organization in 1893 had been sold for $117 to a junkman.
- The woman breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking chickens, blowing laundry, clattering junkmen.