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guttersnipe

The definition of a guttersnipe is a person in the lowest social group in the city.

(noun)

An example of guttersnipe is what someone may call a runaway living in the streets.

See guttersnipe in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a child of the slums who spends most of his or her time in the streets: contemptuous term applied to anyone regarded as having the manners, morals, etc. of the gutter

Origin: orig. (Brit dial.), the common snipe, which picks food out of gutters

See guttersnipe in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A street urchin.
A person of the lowest class.

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