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Noun
/ˈbēCHˌkōmər/,
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beachcombers, plural;
  1. A vagrant who makes a living by searching beaches for articles of value and selling them

  2. A person who searches beaches for useful or interesting items

  3. A long wave rolling in from the sea; a comber

  1. (beachcomber) a vagrant living on a beach
  2. The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series broadcast on CBC Television.
  3. (Beachcomber (keelboat)) Beachcomber is a round bilge glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) keelboat designed and built in New Zealand around 1980. The designer of the Beachcomber was R Hart (of Hart Bros) Whangaparoa, New Zealand. Designer is said to have drowned off east end of Waiheke while young.
  4. (Beachcomber (pen name)) Beachcomber was a nom de plume used by surrealist humorous columnists D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and, chiefly, J. B. Morton as authors of the Daily Express column "By the Way" in the period 1919-1975. ...
  5. (Beachcomber (Transformers)) This is a list of known Autobots from the Transformers fictional universe and toy line. The alt modes of Autobots are usually cars, trucks and various other ground-based civilian vehicles.
  6. (The Beachcomber) "The Vessel of Wrath" is a short story by W. Somerset Maugham. Written in 1931 it first appeared in the April, 1931 edition of International Magazine (see Stott, 1973). ...
  7. (The Beachcomber (film)) The Beachcomber is a 1954 British comedy drama film directed by Muriel Box starring Donald Sinden, Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Paul Rogers, Donald Pleasence and Michael Hordern. The film is based on the story The Vessel of Wrath by W. ...
  8. (The Beachcomber (series)) The Beachcomber was an ITC Entertainment adventure TV series which ran for one series of 39 half-hour episodes in 1962.
  9. (beachcomber) A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others; Any loafer around a waterfront
  10. (Beachcomber) a hobo who hangs around docks or seaports.
  11. (Beachcomber) "Gorgeous pictures. I love rainbows. I don't see too many rainbows wher…"
  12. (Beachcomber) Blue and white dunebuggy. Only appears in a few episodes.
  13. (Beachcomber) Originally coined as defining a destitute or degraded individual who frequents a beach front. Sanitized more recently as being anyone enamored with spending time in or around the ocean. Also used occasionally in reference to a long sweeping wave characteristic of a point break.