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Examples
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My parents had him over for Sunday brunch and he talked about his work as a "honey-dipper" in the Deep South where he grew up.
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The honey-dipper was the guy who hunted for lost glasses and whatever else was dropped in outhouse cesspools.
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It's odd, but it was only this year that I put it all together: his exclusion by the other teachers, his job as a honey-dipper, his need to escape America.
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He remembered thinking that of all the boys who would say such a thing, how odd that it was the son of a “honey-dipper,” slang for a man paid to shovel out outhouses.
THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007
frogapplause commented on the word honey-dipper
The honey-dipper was the guy who hunted for lost glasses and whatever else was dropped in outhouse cesspools.
—Greg Palast
May 11, 2010