The Tapias are ragpickers who earn a living from a nearby municipal dump.
More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers, swill-gatherers, bootblacks.
He began to work as a ragpicker and lived in the railway station.
Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders.
His father still works as a ragpicker, pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.
Definition of ragpicker in US English:
ragpicker
nounˈraɡˌpikər
A person who collects and sells rags.
〈史〉捡破烂的人
Example sentencesExamples
The Tapias are ragpickers who earn a living from a nearby municipal dump.
More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers, swill-gatherers, bootblacks.
His father still works as a ragpicker, pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.
Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders.
He began to work as a ragpicker and lived in the railway station.