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Street runner
Answer for the clue "Street runner ", 5 letters:
gamin
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Word definitions for gamin in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"street urchin," 1837, from French gamin (late 18c.), perhaps from Berrichon dialect gamer "to steal." Introduced in English in translations of Hugo.\n\n Un groupe d'enfants, de ces petits sauvages vanu-pieds qui ont de tout temps battu le pavé de Paris ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A street urchin; a homeless boy.
Usage examples of gamin.
She was twelve years older, a lot less the gamin, classy and self-possessed now, but it was Kate nonetheless.
I am sure that no one ever felt any repugnance on being introduced by Cervantes to the muleteers, contrabandistas, servants and serving-maids, and idle vagabonds of Spain, any more than to an acquaintance with the beggar-boys and street gamins on the canvases of Murillo.
There was a certain amount of the gamin element in the girl, at all events she invariably got on well with small boys.
A few gamins, however, were around, in their eyes a suppressed eagerness in anticipation of wonderful and exciting things to happen.
Then quiet again, though the gamins had startled and listened, like young deer, at the sound.
The million and a half of small boys of whom I have already spoken--mostly street gamins, owing to the lateness of the hour--sprang up from all about us.
Presently, he put down his fork and beckoned the smaller of the women in black, a platinum blond with darker eyebrows and gamin features.
Soon they were facing a circle of guns, and had to stand helplessly while one of the shipmen with a communicator hysterically reported the capture to Gamin Sher.