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I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
Tom Perrotta

Meaning of "garbage man" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GARBAGE MAN

garbage man  [ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ mæn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GARBAGE MAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Garbage man is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GARBAGE MAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

garbage man

Waste collector

A waste collector is a person employed by a public or private enterprise to collect and remove refuse and recyclables from residential, commercial, industrial or other collection site for further processing and disposal. Specialised waste collection vehicles featuring an array of automated functions are often deployed to assist waste collectors in reducing collection and transport time and for protection from exposure.

Definition of garbage man in the English dictionary

The definition of garbage man in the dictionary is a man whose job is to collect domestic refuse.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GARBAGE MAN


anchorman
ˈæŋkəmæn
birdman
ˈbɜːdˌmæn
boardman
ˈbɔːdˌmæn
businessman
ˈbɪznɪsˌmæn
cameraman
ˈkæmərəˌmæn
caveman
ˈkeɪvˌmæn
deadman
ˈdɛdˌmæn
freedman
ˈfriːdˌmæn
handyman
ˈhændɪˌmæn
iceman
ˈaɪsmæn
ironman
ˈaɪənˌmæn
mailman
ˈmeɪlˌmæn
man
mæn
repairman
rɪˈpɛəˌmæn
rodman
ˈrɒdˌmæn
sandman
ˈsændˌmæn
snowman
ˈsnəʊˌmæn
spiderman
ˈspaɪdəˌmæn
strongman
ˈstrɒŋˌmæn
superman
ˈsuːpəˌmæn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GARBAGE MAN

garb
garbage
garbage can
garbage chute
garbage collection
garbage collector
garbage disposal
garbage disposal unit
garbage shute
garbage truck
garbagey
garbagy
garbanzo
garbe
garble
garbled
garbler
garbless
garbo
garboard

WORDS THAT END LIKE GARBAGE MAN

advance man
as one man
auntie man
Boxgrove man
confidence man
ice man
iron man
little man
maintenance man
make-up man
medicine man
old man
rag-and-bone man
remittance man
Renaissance man
revenue man
ticket-of-leave man
to a man
vigilance man
young man

Synonyms and antonyms of garbage man in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «garbage man» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GARBAGE MAN

Find out the translation of garbage man to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of garbage man from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «garbage man» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

垃圾的人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hombre de la basura
570 millions of speakers

English

garbage man
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कचरा आदमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رجل القمامة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мусорщик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homem do lixo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবর্জনা মানুষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éboueur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lelaki sampah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Müllmann
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ごみの男
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

청소부
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sampah wong
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người đàn ông rác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குப்பை மனிதன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कचरा माणूस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çöp adam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

uomo spazzatura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śmieciarzem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сміттяр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gunoier
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκουπιδιάρης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vullis man
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sopor man
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

søppel mann
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of garbage man

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GARBAGE MAN»

The term «garbage man» is regularly used and occupies the 61.090 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GARBAGE MAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «garbage man» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «garbage man» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about garbage man

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3 QUOTES WITH «GARBAGE MAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word garbage man.
1
Tony Danza
I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.
2
Tom Perrotta
I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
3
Nick Tosches
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GARBAGE MAN»

Discover the use of garbage man in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to garbage man and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dear Garbage Man
A new garbage man cannot bear to put anything usable in the chewer-upper on his truck.
Gene Zion, 1957
2
Garbage Man:
Joseph D'Lacey. assumed it was the residual blobs of sunlight in his eyes but then the movement took form, a very recognisable form. Something huge heaved itself out of the landfill. Ray recognised the action, thatofa swimmer leaving apool.
Joseph D'Lacey, 2014
3
Ramblings of a One-Eyed Garbage Man
Readers who value well-chosen words that are rich with life will treasure this graceful, enlightening collection.
Jim Hart, 2013
4
The Theater of Trauma: American Modernist Drama and the ...
John Dos Passos' play The Garbage Man,3 which opened the New Playwrights venture (1927), was both representative and influential. As the original title, "The Moon is a Gong", may suggest, The Garbage Man was first conceived somewhat  ...
Michael Cotsell, 2005
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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures ...
Alsace. Note: Opened in Berlin in Dec 1959; in Paris in May 1960 as Sans tambour ni trompette. DIE GANSEMAGD see THE GOOSE GIRL THE GAP see JOE GARAKUTA see THE RABBLE THE GARBAGE MAN F6.1761 Cinema Distributors ...
‎1997
6
Sculpture and Psychoanalysis
I'm referring to the special sensation, physical and mental, that everything which surrounded us living in the Soviet Union represented an enormous littered space. 42 In the Garbage Man installation of 1989, among the first Kabakov completed ...
Brandon Taylor, 2006
7
Weekly World News
The nation's number one garbage man, Bud Patterson, is a bighearted "good Samaritan" who has unselfishly dedicated his life to helping strangers in trouble. The very gallant 59-year-old Bothel, Wash., man helped save four people from the ...
8
The Twentieth-century Performance Reader
What's the salarv of the garbage man who works tor you?' The headwaiter does not want to give any information about salaries, but a second actor at another table is already prepared and explains that he and the garbage man have gotten to ...
Michael Huxley, Noel Witts, 2002
9
Garbage Wars: the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
For example, in the fall of 1995 three employees at Newell Recycling of Denver, Inc. were badly burned in an explosion at the plant.59 In November 1 996, a New York garbage man was killed from exposure to acid that sprayed forth from a ...
David Naguib Pellow, 2003
10
English Word-Formation
But this does not mean that garbage man with that meaning should be blocked by the grammar. Consider, for example, the following plausible context: In the back street where I grew up, everybody was poor. We were so poor that we never  ...
Laurie Bauer, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GARBAGE MAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term garbage man is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The New Reddit CEO's Many Challenges | LinkedIn
A man the U.S. government had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to train as a SEAL was, for three months, a glorified garbage man and ... «LinkedIn, Jul 15»
2
Robert Townsend Interview - Smashing Interviews Magazine
She was nominated for an Academy Award, and the film is about a single mother who falls in love with a garbage man. I always loved that ... «Smashing Interviews Magazine, Jul 15»
3
7 things cops wished you knew - Guns.com
We know that your job is nowhere near as dangerous as being a farmer, or a roofer, or a garbage man. Those guys do their really dangerous ... «Guns.com, Jul 15»
4
Special needs kids push to become authors
“And then I started a new career, being a garbage man. It was way better than being an engineer. The end,” said Samuel Julius while ... «ActionNewsJax.com, Jul 15»
5
AWOL from City Hall
If [Clark] were a garbage man and didn't come to work, that would be less of a problem, but he is doing something really important," Stalberg ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
6
As homeless advocates plan response to Route 40 sweep, another …
... the coming sweep from a garbage man. The notion that a landscaping project had coincidentally been scheduled on the grounds of another ... «Baltimore City Paper, Jul 15»
7
Meet PEI's singing garbage man
Download this column on PEI's singing garbage man for your publication or ... He is Eddy Quinn, known locally as “the singing garbage man.” «Troy Media, Jul 15»
8
Media Still Confused About Paris Climate Deal
Now instead of putting my trash in the trash can and paying for the garbage man to pick it up, I just dumped my trash into the street every day. «CleanTechnica, Jul 15»
9
UA Camp: Wednesday evening session notes
... but his physicality and high-motor play were very helpful on both ends of the floor and he acted as a glorified garbage man on a team that just ... «Rivals.com, Jul 15»
10
Resident upset with illegal dump in Lake Echo, N.S.
A lot of the stuff that's dumped there, the garbage man will take it. Leave it out for the garbage man,they will take it. There's no charge,” said ... «Globalnews.ca, Jul 15»

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