Meaning

4 senses

  1. A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.

    Strandräuber

  2. Any loafer around a waterfront.

    Strandfaulenzer

  3. A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.

  4. A long rolling wave of the sea.

More definitions
  • a vagrant living on a beach

Examples

1 sentences

  1. I'm not a good beachcomber. I only pick up pieces of broken glass where others collect coins and things.

    ruИз меня плохой пляжный бродяга. Я подбираю только осколки разбитого стекла, в то время как остальные собирают монеты и вещи. — odexed

    deIch bin kein guter Strandgutsammler. Ich lese nur Glasscherben auf, wo andere Münzen und dergleichen einsammeln. — al_ex_an_der

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 2
seaman who hangs around port areas living off the charity of others:
loafer around a waterfront:

Forms

plural: beachcombers

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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