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street person

/street-pee puhl/US // ˈstrit ˌpi pəl //

流浪者,街头流浪者,路人甲,流浪汉

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Definitions

n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : people whose home is on the streets of a city; people who are unhoused or experiencing homelessness.
    • : people who make their living on the streets, especially of large cities, as vendors or performers.
    • : the people of a neighborhood, especially a poor and crowded big-city neighborhood, who frequent the streets of their area.

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Examples

  • Then I tried to find my dorm room but got lost and wound up in a bad neighborhood, heckled by scary-looking street people who made fun of my mustache.

  • Really, is it any wonder that fluoride should freak people out?

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.

  • Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.

  • The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.

  • The people here retained the same paganism and barbarity, only they were not so dangerous, being conquered by the Muscovites.

  • All our people were well mounted, and armed with rifles, pistols, and bowie-knives.

  • “This is a distressing predicament for these young people,” thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning.