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street-arab

street-arab is the alternative form of street Arab.

Meaning of street Arab

Noun

street Arab (plural street Arabs)

  1. (dated) A homeless child who roams the streets, usually begging for handouts; a street urchin.
    • ‘It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force,’ said my companion, gravely; and as he spoke there rushed into the room half a dozen of the dirtiest and most ragged street Arabs that ever I clapped eyes on.1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section VI

Forms of street-arab

pluralstreet-arabs
alternative formstreet Arab

Questions about street-arab

What is street-arab the alternative form of?
Street-arab is the alternative form of street Arab.

Words near street-arab in the dictionary

  1. street worker
  2. street workers
  3. street workout
  4. street workouts
  5. street works
  6. street-arab
  7. street-arabs
  8. street-cleaner
  9. street-cleaners
  10. street-keeper
  11. street-keepers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: street-arab (page history and authors); street Arab (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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