a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
As we stopped at the traffic lights, three small boys, street urchins no more thansix or seven years old with ragged clothes and grimy skin, appeared from the undergrowth.
Examples of 'street urchin' in a sentence
street urchin
No street urchin, he came from a wealthy, aristocratic family and had completed his education at Yale.