junkman
noun
a dealer in resalable used metal, paper, rags, and other junk.
junkmen
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pluralof junkman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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General Iron Industries operated nearly a century in Lincoln Park, taking the rebar, typewriters, washing machines, cars, scooters and other scrap metal that junkmen had collected from alleys or demolition companies.
From Washington Post
All of a sudden, they were potentially responsible for millions of dollars in damages the junkmen might otherwise have had to pay.
From Time Magazine Archive
So last week junkmen began organizing a co-operative junk yard to ignore both wholesalers and retailers and sell direct to the mills.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction to restrain the police, told the junkmen they were not employes but independent merchants and not covered by the Wagner Act.
From Time Magazine Archive
How do you come to know junkmen, lassie?”
From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill
