(p.) One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) said the dustman, scooping up discarded election posters, wine and whisky bottles, beer cans and other rubbish.
(2) The following year he sold over a million records in Britain alone, with another novelty song, My Old Man's A Dustman, a re-write of a Liverpool folk tune and first world war marching song, up-dated with cockney jokes and lyrics, which topped the charts for four weeks.
(3) In two cases, indoor contamination must be suspected; in the third case, transmission has been facilitated by insalubrity and crowding; the fourth case was related to the activities of a dustman in camping sites.
(4) 'What was hers was mine and what was mine was my own' Bill, 71, is a retired dustman and construction worker.
(5) We should be forced to give so many exceptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.” On 30 September 1985, Hurd tackled the problems of collection and enforcement of a local government tax that was to be widely attacked as making a ‘duke pay the same as a dustman’.
(6) Adrian Mole, throwing down litter with the excuse that it keeps his uncle the dustman in work, reflects the attitude of many offenders I work with – they think that we, the support providers, need them to have problems in order to keep our jobs.
(7) Dustman and Frattini say it is misleading to use the £118bn figure as the Telegraph and Mail have done.
Dustpan
Definition:
(n.) A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The same adults and children who were going out demonstrating are now out with dustpan and broom.
(2) "Even just putting on some gloves, picking up a dustpan and brush and clearing one broken window on the way into work.