beachcombernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbiːtʃˌkəʊ.mər/us/ˈbiːtʃˌkoʊ.mɚ/a person who walks along beaches looking for objects of value or interest
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- delve
- dig
- drag
- nose
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- quest
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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Examples from literature
- It was the tale of this old beachcomber that brought us here, he explained.
- The first a big sailor as was evident by his gait, as well as his costume, and the man who followed in his wake was of a slinking type, and may have been a beachcomber.