STREET URCHIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does street urchin mean? 

• STREET URCHIN (noun)
  The noun STREET URCHIN has 1 sense:

1. a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas

  Familiarity information: STREET URCHIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREET URCHIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

guttersnipe; street urchin

Hypernyms ("street urchin" is a kind of...):

urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "street urchin"):

gamine (a homeless girl who roams the streets)

gamin; street arab; throwaway ((sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets)