Meanings
nounshit-carter (plural shit-carters)
plural shit-carters
- A person employed to empty outhouses; a sanitary man.
Near-synonym: nightman
1 more example
‘If I was a shit-carter, every Christmas I’d go and dump a load in Cucumber Domain.’
1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 22Synonyms: nightman
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person employed to empty outhouses; a sanitary man.
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