(Australia, humorous) A garbage collector.
(Australia, humorous) A garbage collector.
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Aussie and Kiwi vocabulary — bogan, daggy, brekkie, sheila, bach, jandals — the whole Antipodean lexicon, including outback dialect, surf and beach culture, and Sydney/Melbourne street slang.
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(countable, Australia, informal) A rubbish collector; a garbage man.
(US, Canada) A worker who removes refuse, especially from properties.
(AU, US, Canada) Someone, usually male, whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
(Australia, North America, uncountable, colloquial, derogatory) Garbage; something considered worthless.
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One who examines refuse using archaeological techniques.
A garbologist forages through waste paper baskets in search of interesting documents.
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