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词汇 fly-tipper
释义 fly-tipper
noun[ C ]
UKuk /ˈflaɪˌtɪp.ər/ us /ˈflaɪˌtɪp.ɚ/
a person or company that illegally leaves waste or unwanted objects next to a road, in a field, in a river, etc.:
Millions of pounds are spent every year removing old mattresses, sofas, fridges and other large items dumped in the countryside by fly-tippers.
The council uses hidden cameras to catch fly-tippers.
Related words
fly-tip
fly-tipping
The household rubbish that had been dumped in the ditch and on the road near his home was the work of fly-tippers, he said.
Rats swarm over heaps of rubbish left in the alley by fly-tippers.
The most blatant fly-tipper I've seen was a builder's lorry that dumped a trailer load of rubble in the middle of the afternoon and just drove off.
One council officer was beaten up when she challenged a fly-tipper.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Removing and getting rid of things
abandonment
banish
be scattered to the four windsidiom
bin
cast someone/something aside/away/off
dumping
eradication
eradication of something
erase
erasure
evacuate
evacuate someone from something
shedding
shoo
shrug
shrug something off
shuck
sling
toss
turf
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