garbageman
noun
a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage; sanitation worker.
garbagemen
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pluralof garbageman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The tragedy, of course, is that they fall out of love with garbagemen as they grow older: “socialization,” writes the author, draws a line “between decency and dirt.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“I kind of think about them as the little garbagemen of the forest,” Marek said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
In the course of his investigation, the commissario interviews one of the garbagemen, or spazzini, from whom he gleans a damning piece of evidence.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2021
They’re left for days or weeks for a time on public rights of way, blocking curb access for garbagemen, emergency vehicles, and pedestrians trying to cross the street.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018
A dismal assignment, I thought: garbagemen to the inmates.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
