Meanings
plural street-cleaners
- alternativeAlternative form of streetcleaner.
It was the street-cleaners, busy at work in the late evening hours, who got to take a break to laugh at the unexpected procession of bicycles.
2023 June 9, Maple Buescher, “Finding community … on two wheels”, in The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E4, column 42 more examples
If the Town Council would take a broad hint, street-cleaners might be set to work, and the bustle and change of looks in our streets, could be viewed with advantage.
1831 March 21, Harrisburg Chronicle, volume XIX, number 34, Harrisburg, Pa., →OCLC, page [3], column 3The move comes following renewed calls for a permanent street-cleaner in Dalton, after residents reported a rise in the amount of litter in the town.
2023 March 21, Eleanor Ovens, “‘Clean sweep’ is welcomed”, in The Mail, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1
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