词汇 | airy way |
词源 | airy way. Once a common term for an areaway of apart- ment houses. In the airy way garbage cans, rarely called trash cans, were kept for the garbagemen (sanitation workers to- day) to pick up, usually to the side of a building against a fence. Garbagemen in the 1930s, when the term probably originated, lifted not only garbage but cans of coal ashes so heavy that they required two men to dump them into the garbage truck. |
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