For this reason, they are sometimes called squeegee merchants.

An excerpt from Hansard, the record of the British House of Commons, about squeegee merchants.

Straw garnered particular attention for comments condemning "aggressive beggars, winos and squeegee merchants" and calling for a curfew on children.

"The tough New York Mayor has beaten crime, squeegee merchants and, bizarrely, ferret owners who want him to overturn his ban on keeping them as pets," wrote a reporter for The Express.