(British, dated) A child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets; sometimes a petty thief or pickpocket.
She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.
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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.
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