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Shore scrounger
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beachcomber
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Beachcomber was the nom de plume used by two humorous columnists, D. B. Wyndham Lewis and, chiefly, J. B. Morton , as authors of the Daily Express column "By the Way" in the period 1919–1975. Two other authors have also used the name: Major John Bernard ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As well as keeping their eyes peeled for surface coins and jewellery, beachcombers also look for non-metal items on their foreshore hunting grounds. ▪ Attracted by its unusual colour and shape the beachcomber picked it up. ▪ ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
beachcomber \beachcomber\ [Written also beach-comber or beach comber .] (Naut.) A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean. I was fortunate enough, however, to forgather ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others. 2 Any loafer around a waterfront.
Usage examples of beachcomber.
He was like a beachcomber searching the tidemark for something familiar.
Scraggs and a beachcomber like his mate Gibney make a pair of star-spangled monkeys out of said two towboat men and get away with it?
Dad had been buying them from beachcombers, merging them together till he got one big enough to crawl into again.
The fragrances of salt and seaweed, coconut oil and aloe from the sunscreen lotions of beachcombers around them.
She and Bjorn joined him on the trip, and they stayed at the Park Royal Beachcomber, a very nice hotel and favorite among Hawaiian Air employees.
So much of the time of the Beachcomber is spent sweeping with hopeful eyes the breadths of the empty sea, policing the uproarious beaches, overhauling the hordes of roguish reefs, and the medley concealed in cosy caves by waves that storm at the bare mention of the rights of private property, that he cannot avoid casual acquaintance with the scores of animated things which ceaselessly woo him from the pursuit of his calling.
A Hollywood casting director searching for someone to play a beachcomber in a South Seas epic would easily have decided that Dr.
I don't believe the Beachcomber actually realized that he was aiding and abetting a crime syndicate until it was too late to back out.
Ocean Park's had a long-standing feud with the folks down at Long Beach, who're agitating to get the peninsula name changed from North Beach to Long Beach, and the Beachcomber is our champion debater.
Winn, I just wanted to ask Tommy if he thought we ought to go over and get that radio antenna out of the driftwood pile to take down to the Beachcomber for his museum.
His image sat no easier with her Catholic sentiments than it had with the superstitions of the Southern Baptist beachcombers.
The Hammerlund loudspeaker on the table behind the Beachcomber suddenly gave out with a burst of high-speed CW, or continuous wave radio telegraph code.