STREET URCHIN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

guttersnipe; street urchin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)