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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A street urchin.
  2. n. A person of the lowest class.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The common American or Wilson's snipe, Gallinago wilsoni or delicata.
  2. n. A gatherer of rags and waste paper from gutters.
  3. n. A street child of the lowest class; a street Arab; a gamin.
  4. n. An oblong form of printed placard made to be posted on the curbstones of gutters.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who is from the lowest social or economic class.
  2. n. A street urchin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. [Slang] a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab.
  2. n. United States, United States A small poster, suitable for a curbstone.
  3. n. United States A curbstone broker.
  4. n. same as street Arab.
  5. n. a person of low moral character.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas

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