A person who travels round an area buying old or unwanted clothes and household items in order to resell them.
I sold a cupboard like this to the junkman years ago
Example sentencesExamples
The third-generation junkman has everything arranged in a way that reveals the eye of an artist; wonderful assemblages that combine necessity and art.
Does anybody remember a TV movie that starred Andy Griffith as a junkman who wanted to collect everything that was left on the moon for profit?
Home to nearly 2 million people, the neighborhood is a gritty tapestry of mechanics, metal grinders, junkmen and laborers.
He was famous for playing a junkman in the sitcom "Steptoe and Son".
The brick was bought from junkmen and carefully laid into the living room wall.
He says he was destined to work as a ciruja, or junkman, from the cradle.
A visit to a junk yard provided several items they were able to repair and after several barters, they provided the junkman with the cord of wood he wanted.
Within ten years of entering the country, he rose from driving a wagon for a Newark junkman for $10 a week to establishing his own yard.
All the ledgers and journals containing the financial history of the Metropolitan since its organization in 1893 had been sold for $117 to a junkman.
The woman breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking chickens, blowing laundry, clattering junkmen.
Definition of junkman in US English:
junkman
noun
North American
A person who travels around an area buying old or unwanted clothes and household items in order to resell them.
I sold a cupboard like this to the junkman years ago
Example sentencesExamples
He says he was destined to work as a ciruja, or junkman, from the cradle.
Within ten years of entering the country, he rose from driving a wagon for a Newark junkman for $10 a week to establishing his own yard.
The woman breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking chickens, blowing laundry, clattering junkmen.
He was famous for playing a junkman in the sitcom "Steptoe and Son".
The third-generation junkman has everything arranged in a way that reveals the eye of an artist; wonderful assemblages that combine necessity and art.
Home to nearly 2 million people, the neighborhood is a gritty tapestry of mechanics, metal grinders, junkmen and laborers.
All the ledgers and journals containing the financial history of the Metropolitan since its organization in 1893 had been sold for $117 to a junkman.
The brick was bought from junkmen and carefully laid into the living room wall.
Does anybody remember a TV movie that starred Andy Griffith as a junkman who wanted to collect everything that was left on the moon for profit?
A visit to a junk yard provided several items they were able to repair and after several barters, they provided the junkman with the cord of wood he wanted.