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street arab
[ street ar-uhb ]
noun
- a person, especially a child, who lives on the streets; urchin.
street Arab
noun
- literary.a homeless child, esp one who survives by begging and stealing; urchin
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Word History and Origins
Origin of street arab1
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Example Sentences
The beggar reciting the Bible to fill his pocket is very well; but he does not come up to the preaching street arab.
Once in a while some street arab let drive a stone, then dove under the nearest car, and scurried away into hiding.
This is the newsboy of London, a personality into which the street arab not infrequently develops.
He was a Parisian, a former street arab, and I suspected him of having prepared an apple-pie bed in order to have a laugh at me.
And in her turn Florence appeared with her little street-arab smile, and her childish haunches.
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