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Definition: Street Sweeper |
Street SweeperNoun1. A worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Occupations | Sweeps refuse from municipal streets, gutters, and sidewalks into pile and shovels refuse into movable container that is pushed from place to place. May pick up paper and similar rubbish from lawns, flower beds, or highway median strips, using spike-tipped stick. (references) |
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Synonym: Street SweeperSynonym: street cleaner (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Street Sweeper |
| Specialty definitions using "street sweeper": MAINTENANCE WORKER, MUNICIPAL. (references) |
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Lyrics | If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "street sweeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fshesar (scavenger, sweeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | уличен метач (orderly, scavenger, sweeper), машина за метене на улиците. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kadunlakaisija. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Straßenkehrer (cleanser, road sweeper, scavenger, scavengers, sweeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οδοκαθαριστήσ (scavenger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utcaseprõ (scavenger, sweeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spazzino (dustman, roadsweeper, scavenger, sweeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "路掃除人 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうろそうじじ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eetstray eepersway podar (bridge builder, ferryman, rafter). (various references) метельщик улиц (street orderly). (various references) mašina za čišćenje ulica, čistač ulice (scavenger). (various references) barrendero (scavenger, sweeper). (various references) gatsopare (scavenger). (various references) машина для підмітання вулиць, підмітальник вулиць (sweep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-e-p-r-r-s-s-t-t-w" | |
-4 letters: peetweets, pesterers, pewterers, resetters. | |
-5 letters: peetweet, pesterer, pewterer, presters, pretests, resetter, steepers, steepest, steerers, strewers, sweepers, sweetest, tweeters, wresters. | |
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