noun

• A street urchin.

  ‘If Chicago lacks the vision to see ahead, it will reap the harvest of fostering a kindergarten on the streets where gamins learn crime.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Lacking formal education, adult supervision, and sometimes even a home, such youths were derided as ‘rats,’ ‘gamins,’ ‘urchins’ and ‘gutter-snipes.’’
  • ‘The Bowery Theater, in particular, was described as ‘a common ground for the gamins.’’
  • ‘The gamin creates their ideal in spirit when she takes the most broken-down shack and tries to make it ‘home.’’
  • ‘The final shot is of the Tramp and the gamin walking away from us, down the road.’

  Synonyms

  mischievous child, imp, monkey, Puck, rascal, rogue, minx, mischief-maker, prankster