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Street sweeper

noun

A worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department). Synonym: street cleaner.

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"Street sweeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... loop hounds. They know everybody by their first name and sometimes they've got all of $6.50 in their pocket at one time. And if you're out some evening with a friend—a regular fella, they pop in the next day and say, 'Hello, Peewee, who was that street sweeper I see you palling with last night? Oh, he wasn't! Well, I had him pegged either as a street ...

— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht

... white togas. But we knew that they were alive, for a finger of the hand of the oldest rose, pointed to us, and fell down again. This was the only thing which moved, for the lips of the oldest did not move as they said: "Street Sweeper." ...

— Anthem • Ayn Rand

Words linked to "Street sweeper" : street cleaner, cleaner