"litterbug" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…] I mean I'm sittin' here, on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug",
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          "ref": "2021 January 8, Nicole Hemmer, “The striking parallels between the assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol”, in CNN:",
          "text": "Pretending a litterbug and a spree killer have committed equivalent infractions doesn’t make people safer.",
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          "ref": "2023 April 18, Sam Roberts, “John J. Doherty, Stalwart Sanitation Commissioner, Dies at 84”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2024-12-26:",
          "text": "Mr. Doherty was known to publicly berate litterbugs and upbraid motorists whose stranded cars prevented plows from clearing snow.",
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        "A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up."
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        "(informal) A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up."
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          "sense": "person who drops litter",
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          "sense": "person who drops litter",
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          "word": "Schmutzfink"
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          "sense": "person who drops litter",
          "word": "kutu sampah"
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      "sense": "person who drops litter",
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      "sense": "person who drops litter",
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