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词组 pearl-diver
释义 pearl-diver
noun
  1. a dishwasher in a restaurant US, 1913
    • Ed Dunkel said he was an old pearldiver from way back and pitched his long arms into the dishes. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 117, 1957
    • Blacks were beaten and killed for jobs like porter, bellboy, stoker, pearl diver, and bootblack. — George Jackson, Soledad Brother, p. 243, April 1970
    • Bobo also took pride in speaking a lil’ Spanish (I think he picked it up from a Mexican busboy, during a three day sentence as a pearldiver). — Odie Hawkins, Men Friends, p. 12, 1989
  2. a five-pound note; the sum of £5 UK: SCOTLAND, 1985
    • Ah fun [found] a pearl diver down the settee. — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, 1996
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