(UK, Irish) A man who deals in scrap metal and recycled junk (originally including rags and bones, in earlier centuries).
(UK, Irish) A man who deals in scrap metal and recycled junk (originally including rags and bones, in earlier centuries).
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(British) A dealership selling cheap unwanted second-hand goods, or bric-a-brac, that have been collected for nothing as disposable items.
(Singapore, Malaysia, metonym, or, attributively) A traditional scrap dealer or rag-and-bone man who visits residential zones to collect unwanted items.
(British) an annoying person, especially a noisy one, one who rags upon another.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A person who gathers rags to sell.
(Britain, archaic) A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.