A child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas

• Bit of riffraff
• Street urchin to start to go out with bird
• (Neglected) child of the streets
• Street urchin
• Child of the streets

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also gutter-snipe , 1857, from gutter (n.) + snipe (n.); originally Wall Street slang for "streetcorner broker," attested later (1869) as "street urchin," also "one who gathers rags and paper from gutters." As a name for the common snipe, it dates from ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas [syn: street urchin ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guttersnipe \Gut"ter*snipe"\, n. (Slang) A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. A curbstone broker. [U. S.] same as street Arab . a person of low moral character.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ No wonder you turned into such a weasel-faced guttersnipe . ▪ There's no trusting a guttersnipe .