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holiday-maker

alt. (context British English) Someone who is on holiday. n. (context British English) Someone who is on holiday.

Usage examples of "holiday-maker".

The murderers had to wait till past eleven to get rid of the body, as the streets were full of holiday-makers.

Most of the holiday-makers had gone now, but on the sands there were still a few about, and the tents and bathing boxes had not yet been dismantled and put away.

Still enough warm sun for holiday-makers to be out on the beach and for the staff to be sleeping.

Every year, before the holiday-makers came, there was the big brush-up, and every winter, when they’d gone, the comfortable relapse into carpet slippers and salt-caked windows.

From somewhere near by I could hear merry holiday-makers leaving the pub, their voices raised in song.

The streets were crowded with holiday-makers who were intent only on viewing the results of the invasion.

Once our holiday-makers saw a horse and cart, and once a youth riding a black horse amidst the badinage of the passersby.

The short ferry journey, leaving the Audi on the jetty at Norddeich, in the company of a few late holiday-makers from Hamburg and the Ruhr crossing to Norderney for an off-season, cheap-rate ten days, had increased his sense of possible foolishness, of chasing after a whim and looking very, very dumb.