"Oscar the Grouch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989, Linda Gray Sexton, Points of Light, Harper Mass Market Paperbacks,, page 97",
          "text": "If I'd had a trash can I'd have looked a lot like Oscar the Grouch.",
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          "ref": "1989, J. Steven Reznick, Perspectives on Behavioral Inhibition, University of Chicago Press,, page 27",
          "text": "The room was equipped with a drum and drumsticks, two large balls, three large building blocks, a stuffed cloth horse, a train large enough to sit on, and a pop-up “Oscar the Grouch” toy. The procedure lasted ten minutes.",
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          "ref": "1989, Joan J. Zilbach, Children in Family Therapy: Treatment and Training, Haworth Press,, page 166",
          "text": "Meanwhile Brooke was sitting on Mother’s lap sucking on her pacifier while Terri build a low enclosed building with two sheep inside and Oscar-the-Grouch coming outside.",
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          "ref": "2002, James Earl Hardy, The Day Eazy-E Died, Alyson Publishing, page 78",
          "text": "“You got a bank at home?”\n“Yes, my piggy bank.”\n“Ah. What kinda bank is it?”\n“Oscar the Grouch. Uncle D gave it to me for my birthday, remember?”",
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          "ref": "2002, Jennifer Hanson, “The Real Freshman Handbook”, in A Totally Honest Guide to Life on Campus, Houghton Mifflin Books, page 41",
          "text": "You thought something was funny when Dad donned his Oscar the Grouch suit and hopped in the trash can after the evening news, rope in hand.",
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          "ref": "2004, Paul McCusker, The Mill House, Zondervan, page 105",
          "text": "Nicholas was hopeful that the pop culture displays would give them something to talk about. It didn't. Fran and Ron gave a cursory acknowledgement to Howdy Doody, Oscar the Grouch, and only a brief glace at Dorothy’s ruby-red slippers."
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          "ref": "2003, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Blue Is for Nightmares, Llewellyn Worldwide,, page 82",
          "text": "I notice a pair of Oscar the Grouch flip-flops, standing in the last stall.",
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          "ref": "2007, “Tim Beyers, Quick Take: United Undone”, in The Motley Fool",
          "text": "Cranky employees harassed by justifiably cranky customers ... Oscar the Grouch would be thrilled. Investors, not so much.",
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        "A cranky, antisocial puppet character who lives in a garbage can, from the children's television show Sesame Street."
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