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guttersnipe

noun

Definition of guttersnipenext
as in urchin

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Recent Examples of guttersnipe Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd. — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024 And looking back sadly, the United States will probably never have another halcyon period like that to squander with minimalist ambitions and guttersnipe politics about nothing. — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2022 They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon. — Max Colchester, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019 There were no sound and light shows, no teenage haute guttersnipes, no thumbing his nose at the rules. — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2016 From the massive success of post-grunge rockers Stone Temple Pilots to commercial guttersnipe supergroup Velvet Revolver, singer Scott Weiland's expansive talent cast a long shadow. — Katherine Turman, Esquire, 4 Dec. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guttersnipe
  1. urchin
  2. waif
  3. ragamuffin
  4. beggar
  5. hobo
  6. indigent
  7. have-not
  8. tramp
Noun
  • Culinary is a focus of Shiki-Shima, with travelers on the 3-night route introduced to sea urchin fresh from the sea, Japanese tea culture, and sushi using fish from Niigata.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Johns began his climb to the top of the hair-color pyramid as a part-Italian, part-Yugoslavian, part-French urchin in the Pittsburgh projects.
    — Vanessa Friedman, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of urchin
Noun
  • Everyone was chasing a waif look.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • More like a woman who had written a book and less like a lost waif.
    — Allegra Goodman, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2026
Definition of waif
Noun
  • On a recent morning, Feldman and his colleagues made their rounds, visiting people living in ragamuffin tents on sidewalks and crannies just west of downtown.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Soon enough, Curtis’s all-black border collie, Steve, and a ragamuffin of a dog, Jack, would emerge from the trees to beg for sandwich scraps.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
Definition of ragamuffin
Noun
  • Dhaka’s rundown streets peppered with the homeless, vendors and child beggars.
    — Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Robert Pattinson’s big outburst in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ has gone viral—here’s the ‘beggars’ meme, explained.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of beggar
Noun
  • Add a slouchy hobo bag and Western belt at the waist for the full effect.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The chocolate brown finish makes this hobo bag a fitting style for fall.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of hobo
Noun
  • Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Definition of indigent
Noun
  • Historically in Chicago, parent fundraising has been a story of have versus have-not schools, a dynamic threatening to drive deeper inequity in a segregated district.
    — Mila Koumpilova, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
  • Often, football is described as a game of haves and have-nots.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Definition of have-not
Noun
  • One of the tramps jumping off a freight car was the juvenile player, Frankie Darrow.
    — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
  • In a California town called Anzar in the late-19th century, Paulette is living with a local magnate’s eccentric son who’s fascinated by the tramps gathering outside his manor.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of tramp

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“Guttersnipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guttersnipe. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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