Usually means: Collector of discarded items, junk.
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  1. rag-and-bone man: Merriam-Webster
  2. rag-and-bone man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rag-and-bone man, rag-and-bone man: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rag-and-bone man: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. rag-and-bone man: Dictionary.com
  6. Rag-and-bone man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. rag-and-bone man: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. rag-and-bone man: Wiktionary

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noun:  (UK, Ireland) A man who deals in scrap metal and recycled junk (originally including rags and bones, in earlier centuries).

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