Beachcomber

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who scavenges along beaches or in wharf areas.
  • n. A seaside vacationer.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
  • n. Any loafer around a waterfront.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See comber.
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A long wave rolling in from the ocean. Bartlett. [U. S.]
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a vagrant living on a beach
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vagabond    drifter    vagrant    floater   
    Variant
    comber   
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