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junkmannoun (plural junkmen) North AmericanA 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...- 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.
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