curbstone
kurb stohn
- n a paving stone forming part of a curb
- Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had been poisoned.
- Some curbstone economists are even looking ahead to "the next recession,'' variously estimated to occur in 1961 or 1962, and trying to get into their storm cellars early.
- On certain days, he could be seen sitting on a curbstone, dining from a tin of sardineswith a servant standing in readiness behind him with a white linen napkin.