ragpicker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ragpicker
Example Sentences
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His father was a junkman, or "ragpicker," as Gunn puts it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Embarrassed by the fall of his onetime classmate, "he" crushes the few hesitant attempts of the ragpicker and his wife to create a friendship.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Tribune story in 1936 showed a ragpicker in a gutter scooping up Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money.
From Time Magazine Archive
A ragpicker, who was collecting scrap paper to recycle, pulled some old da-zi-bao off the wall and happened to tear the newspaper that was posted underneath.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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