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Excluding guys in rubbish heap — they're amazing (9)

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I believe the answer is:

phenomena

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'amazing' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech.

'excluding guys in rubbish heap' is the wordplay.
'excluding' becomes 'no'.
'guys' becomes 'men' (guy can mean a man).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rubbish' indicates anagramming the letters (a poor quality or rubbish spelling of the letters).
'no'+'men'='nomen'
'heap' is an anagram of 'phea'.
'nomen' put within 'phea' is 'PHENOMENA'.

'they're' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for phenomena that I've seen before include "sensations" , "He-man open to remarkable things or wonders" , "Observable occurrences" , "Remarkable events or things, wonders (9)" , "They happen" .)

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