san man
n.— «This point was brought home some months ago by Kevin Fitzgerald, a young “san man,” as he drank coffee on break and we stared out at a dark and empty Union Square Park. He said that his main duty after 9/11 was to man a sanitation truck, filled with sand, that blockaded the Brooklyn Bridge.» —“The Collectors” by Field Maloney New York Times Mar. 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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