A street urchin or young rascal; a mischievous boy or errand-boy in French or European contexts.
From French 'galopin,' possibly from 'galoper' (to rush about); referring to a quick-moving boy or street child, used in 19th-century literature.
Charles Baudelaire and other 19th-century French writers used 'galopin' to describe street children with romantic melancholy—it's a word that captures both mischief and poverty in a single term.
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