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- noun Plural form of
freegan .
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Examples
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They didn't have to, in their role as journalist observers, but an experience like this was hard to pass up, and the scavengers - who call themselves "freegans" - were a friendly, articulate bunch who seemed to know what they were doing.
burlingtonfreepress.com - By Tim Johnson 2010
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Nanc, we don't call them bums anymore, we call freegans, look at the nooner, I posted a link.
Drudge Retort 2008
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* Homeless hipsters: starving dumpster divers can call themselves "freegans"
Sascha Elise Cohen: Horton Hears a Hooverville: Revamping the 30s for Today's Depression 2009
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Several cities in the United States and Europe have communities of "freegans," people who eat food foraged from Dumpsters whenever possible, train hop and sleep in abandoned buildings on principle.
Don't Feed the Beast! Ending the cycle of consumerism, credit and crisis 2007
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It describes a new class of dumpster divers, self-proclaimed "freegans".
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Dumpster-dive 'freegans' dine on rubbish WHEN Tess Campbell and Quinton Gardiner need food, they don't stroll the aisles of a grocery store or go to a cafe - they forage through a bin.
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Dumpster-dive 'freegans' dine on rubbish WHEN Tess Campbell and Quinton Gardiner need food, they don't stroll the aisles of a grocery store or go to a cafe - they forage through a bin.
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But that's just how the 'freegans' decide what's for dinner.
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But that's just how the 'freegans' decide what's for dinner.
MeatProcess RSS 2009
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But that's just how the 'freegans' decide what's for dinner.
MeatProcess RSS 2009
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