(British) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
(British) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
No comments yet — say something.
Add your own interpretation of "dustman".
UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
See all British & Irish slang slang on Slangora.
Browse all slang words starting with D.
(British) Female equivalent of dustman; a woman employed to collect domestic refuse.
(AU, US, Canada) Someone, usually male, whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
(British) A man with the job of collecting refuse from people's homes and transporting it to a refuse tip for processing.
(US, Canada) A worker who collects and hauls away household or municipal garbage, often using a truck to transport it for processing or disposal.
(UK, Irish) A vehicle for collecting refuse.