garbageman
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Origin of garbageman
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“The garbageman is the Sisyphus” of our wasteful society, where the “dream of disposability has turned into a nightmare.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Opening on Broadway in 1987, the play ran for more than a year, starring James Earl Jones as her husband, Troy, a bitter garbageman who played Negro League baseball before serving time in prison.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
And Thomas Moline, a white retired garbageman in Minneapolis, said he simply hadn’t trusted her.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2020
I telephoned Sayyid, a friend who was the neighborhood garbageman, because he had been at the apartment.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
“When I found out I couldn’t be a garbageman, I settled for being a movie star, but it was definitely second-best.”
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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