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Street arab   /strit ˈærəb/   Listen
Street arab

noun
1.
(sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets.  Synonyms: gamin, throwaway.






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"Street arab" Quotes from Famous Books



... passing thought with others; with others, again, a theme of public mockery, not always well assured; and so in the Marquesas with the tapu. Mr. Regler has seen the two extremes of scepticism and implicit fear. In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerful and impudent as a street arab; and it was only on a menace of exposure that he showed himself the least discountenanced. The other case was opposed in every point. Mr. Regler asked a native to accompany him upon a voyage; the man went gladly enough, but suddenly perceiving a dead tapu fish in the bottom of the boat, leaped ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Street arab" :   street urchin, gamin, disparagement, guttersnipe, depreciation, derogation, throwaway



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