Wiktionary
garbage man
n. (context US Canada English) Someone, usually male, whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
WordNet
garbage man
n. someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn: garbage collector, refuse collector, dustman]
Wikipedia
Garbage Man
Garbage Man may refer to:
- a waste collector, a person who goes to houses and businesses to collect waste and take it to a landfill, incinerator, or waste facility.
- "Garbage Man," a song by G. Love and Special Sauce from their 1994 album G. Love and Special Sauce
- In Vigilante 8 and Vigilante 8: Second Offense, the stranded Y the Alien adopts it as an alias, traveling the country in a garbage truck and collecting scrap to repair his totaled ship with.
- "Garbage Man," a song by punk rock band The Cramps off their 1980 album, Songs The Lord Taught Us.
- "Garbageman," a DC Comics character featured in the anthology My Greatest Adventure.
Usage examples of "garbage man".
With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
Finished the afternoon looking like Old Black Joe, and with a dismaying collection of rubbish which the garbage man will be too haughty to remove.