Definitions for beachcombers

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beachcombers beach·comb·er

Spelling: [beech-koh-mer]

IPA: /ˈbitʃˌkoʊ mər/

Beachcombers is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 1001 anagrams from letters in beachcombers (abbcceehmors).

Definitions for beachcombers

noun

1. a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
2. a vagrant who lives on the seashore, especially a nonnative person living in such a way on a South Pacific island.
3. a long wave rolling in from the ocean onto the beach.

Origin of beachcombers

First recorded in 1830-40; beach + comber

Examples for beachcombers

Again the beachcomber struck the stalagmites, listening raptly while the sounds died slowly away.

They followed the path, and a moment later caught a fleeting glimpse of the beachcomber.

He was wrecked on the Peruvian coast and became a beachcomber, and then got a berth in a whaler.

He slops around the lagoon like a beachcomber and hasn't brought in a decent specimen yet.

Ahead of them they now could see a moving light which undoubtedly was a flash lantern carried by the beachcomber.

“Hold hard,” cried the beachcomber, when the bottom was nearly reached.

I'll admit he's not exactly my style, but he's no beachcomber.

The beachcomber meditated a few seconds; then he walked down to the boat.

Some beachcomber in Honolulu had whispered to you, and you'd written to the Governor to find out.

On calling the roll one dawn I found that The beachcomber was missing.