Beachcomber

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  • noun. One who scavenges along beaches or in wharf areas.
  • noun. A seaside vacationer.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A long wave rolling in from the ocean. Bartlett. [U. S.]
  • noun. A seafaring man, generally of vagrant and drunken habits, who idles about the wharves of seaports: used most frequently in countries bordering on the Pacific ocean.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A vagrant seaman, usually of low character, who loiters about seaports, particularly on the shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean.
  • a vagrant living on a beach.
  • a person who searches along a beach for objects of value, such as lost objects or seashells.
  • A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See comber.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
  • noun. Any loafer around a waterfront.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a vagrant living on a beach
    • Word Usage
    "Harris, the beachcomber, is searching for his descendants, to whom she would like to give her finds."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    drifter  floater  vagabond  vagrant  
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Arab  Bowery bum  beach bum  beggar  beggarly fellow  
    variant
    comber  
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