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garbageman
noun
Alternative form of garbage man
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The next day the garbageman came and emptied the garage of everything.
Nebraska's contribution to this pantheon was Charles Starkweather, a runty garbageman who, in 1958, with his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Fugate, roamed from one end of the state to the other, killing nine people in less than a week; Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek played the Starkweather and Fugate surrogates in Terrence Malick's "Badlands".
One door opens onto the building's lobby, another leads to a small garden, and the third is solely for the use of the zabal, or garbageman, who is named Sayyid Ahmed.
As he turned away, he noticed a garbageman pick one up and put it in his pocket.
The garbageman has a financial incentive to throw things away, because he is paid in pickup fees.
Hooray for history!" Better to be a garbageman than a doctor when your father gets sick.
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To that end, we're pleased to announce that Adam Sternbergh, the magazine's culture editor, has just sold his first novel, "Shovel Ready," about a garbageman-turned-hitman in a dystopian New York, to Crown Publishing.
When Oscar Wilde wrote, "There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up," he probably did not have in mind garbagemen sifting through old magazines and empty takeout cartons for evidence of a terrorist plot.
The garbagemen stopped the truck and started to chase us.
Social meliorists sometimes indulge an idle thought: Wouldn't it be fairer if the worst jobs paid the most — if toilet cleaners and garbagemen earned more than restaurant critics and ambassadors to balmy islands?
The accident launched a litany of grievances among the city's garbagemen, who earned less than two dollars a day.
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