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beachcomber
[ beech-koh-mer ]
noun
- a person who lives by gathering saleable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
- a vagrant who lives on the seashore, especially a nonnative person living in such a way on a South Pacific island.
- a long wave rolling in from the ocean onto the beach.
beachcomber
/ ˈbiːtʃˌkəʊmə /
noun
- a person who searches shore debris for anything of worth, esp a vagrant living on a beach
- (in British Columbia) a person who is paid for salvaging loose logs and returning them to logging companies
- a long high wave rolling onto a beach
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Derived Forms
- ˈbeachˌcombing, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beachcomber1
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Example Sentences
Hence the astonishment of Fufuti, which knew the ways of black recruits, when Karaki took the worthless beachcomber to his bosom.
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He strolled into Mess one evening and mentioned quite casually that The Beachcomber was in camp.
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The Beachcomber tugged his red moustache and laughed deprecatingly.
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We wanted to lease a club that he had that was closed down, called the Beachcomber, in a suburb of Dallas.
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He began to talk of the performances of my little two-year-old, Beachcomber; and after twenty minutes or so, he drifted away.
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