Usually means: Street urchin of low status.
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  1. guttersnipe: Merriam-Webster
  2. guttersnipe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guttersnipe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guttersnipe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. guttersnipe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guttersnipe, guttersnipe: Wordnik
  7. guttersnipe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. guttersnipe: Wiktionary
  9. guttersnipe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. guttersnipe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. guttersnipe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Guttersnipe, guttersnipe: Dictionary.com
  13. guttersnipe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Guttersnipe, The Guttersnipe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. guttersnipe: Rhymezone
  16. guttersnipe: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. guttersnipe: FreeDictionary.org
  18. guttersnipe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. guttersnipe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. guttersnipe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Guttersnipe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (guttersnipe)

noun:  (derogatory) A person of the lowest social or economic class.
noun:  (derogatory) A street urchin.
noun:  (slang, dated) A small poster, suitable for a kerbstone.
noun:  (US, slang, dated) A broker who sold securities in the street.

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