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scavenger

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1. scavenger - Noun

2. scavenger - Verb

Meaning

A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.

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A second scavenger pump and five drain lines were added to the engine installation that allowed the aircraft to be flown inverted for up to thirty minutes. Source: Internet

Brown has also proposed that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) grew stronger during the Holocene, and that the devil, as a scavenger with a short life span, was highly sensitive to this. Source: Internet

Dakota News Now is reporting, BookYourBillboard is hosting the social distancing scavenger hunt this Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 5:00 PM on select billboards throughout the Sioux Empire. Source: Internet

After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search – a search to find Mr. Benedict who is being held captive by his evil twin Mr. Curtain. Source: Internet

It is speculated that the devil lineage may have arisen at this time to fill a niche in the ecosystem, as a scavenger that disposed of carrion left behind by the selective-eating thylacine. Source: Internet

As Zoe and the other guides follow Amanda's trail on a wild scavenger hunt, they learn that the real reason Amanda chose them is rooted in their pasts, tied up with a sinister program their parents went through. Source: Internet

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