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dustman

[ UK /dˈʌstmən/ ]
[ US /ˈdəstmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse

How To Use dustman In A Sentence

  • When I was a dustman it didn't put me off my sandwiches. Monty Don: 'I often eat cakes while my fingers are caked in soil'
  • Each week the whistling dustman came down the back garden, hoisted the full dustbin on his shoulder, carried it up the garden and tipped the contents into the dustcart.
  • To be sure, the complications are not strictly lexical or even lexicographical: they stem chiefly from the differences between the kind of lexical alternation of the bonnet/hood, roundabout/traffic circle, dustman/garbage collector type and the type that is sociolinguistic and meaningless without some sort of acculturative comment, like tea, which occurs in both varieties of English but means quite different things in each, the Ashes, which doesn't occur at all in American English, and back bencher, VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
  • There always seems to be trouble down there these days. ' Kim grunted, `If I were a dustman, I'd go on strike for ever. THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
  • Playing "My old man's a dustman" would probably not harm anyone, might even increase the enjoyment of the cup final, but that's ntot the point - there has to be a valid reason for playing it. Shall we sing a song for you?
  • `Well, I wouldn't expect our Caro to be out with the dustman. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Her mantra was whatever you wanted to do, whether you wanted to be a dustman or a zookeeper, that was absolutely brilliant as long as you did it to the best of your abilities. The famous Fiennes
  • One dustman, who didn't want to be named, said: ‘There were some lads in tears when they heard how much they could be losing, particularly those with mortgages to pay and families to look after.’
  • On the contrary, it seems there will be even further politicisation of HM's 'boys in blue' (or 'boys/girls in dustman flourescent/helmeted riot gear/Stasi social spies' with the front line essential responses devolved to inexperienced, under-trained and underpaid council workers). Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • Whilst working as a dustman in the late sixties Corona bottles and other 'returnables' were very much a part of our perks, sometimes producing up to £2 or £3 a week ... the age of the affluent society was already upon us when people couldn't be arsed to take them back. Fizzzz Pop!
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