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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You won’t find too many garbagemen who age well.
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
She wondered whether garbagemen went around telling people that everything was waste, which would’ve been, to her mind, closer to the truth than anything else she’d heard.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Where else do cabbies and garbagemen, bankers and businessmen all walk with a beat?
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
