garbage man

1. 1.

   someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse

   Synonymsgarbagemangarbage collectorgarbage cartergarbage haulerrefuse collectordustman

   Broaderhauler

Questions about garbage man

What does garbage man mean?

garbage man means "someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse".

What is another word for garbage man?

Close synonyms include garbageman, garbage collector, garbage carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garbage man a common word?

garbage man is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.