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street arab

or street Ar·ab

[ street ar-uhb ]

noun

, Archaic: Often Offensive.
  1. a person, especially a child, who lives on the streets; urchin.


street Arab

noun

  1. literary.
    a homeless child, esp one who survives by begging and stealing; urchin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sensitive Note

See Arab.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of street arab1

First recorded in 1860–65
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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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