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
Renovators were paying junkmen $6.50 for used coil springs, were reselling them to retailers for $15.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are not even high enough, in fact, to keep a lot of small junkmen in business.
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
We don't dare use the screens to call them, there is a good chance that the junkmen can intercept our messages.
From Deathworld by H. R. van Dongen
