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What is a guttersnipe?

What is a guttersnipe? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (derogatory) A person who is from the lowest social or economic class.
  2. (derogatory) A street urchin.
  3. (dated, slang) A small poster, suitable for a kerbstone.
  4. (dated, slang, US) A kerbstone broker.
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But I look forward to the time when the technology becomes cheap and common enough for a little guttersnipe like me to afford one.
I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.... Yes: In six months — in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue — I'll take her anywhere and pass her off as anything.
Forbidden insults have included coward, guttersnipe, hooligan, rat, stool pigeon, swine, and traitor.
This is a dexterous little cosmopolitan guttersnipe who can do scores of things, not only shoot, but draw and paint, and probably play the fiddle.
In one way or the other, the guttersnipe must have his proper prominence.
Again, it is a vicious guttersnipe over there.

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