dustman
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Origin of dustman
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He took a year out to apply to study law, during which he worked as a dustman, on a kibbutz and as a ballpoint pen salesman in South Africa.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
"My daughter has been trying to teach me all of these words like rizz and wasteman which I now understand is not a dustman but rather a waste of space."
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024
She said they could get smitten with “the dustman, the postman, the butcher or the prime minister. It happens to be about the people.”
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2017
And each spinner must give the impression that it is a new organisation, not the trash the dustman left behind.
From Economist • May 2, 2013
Squelch's dad's only a dustman but his garden's like a National Trust property.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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