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
Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent.
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
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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