Hobo

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  • noun. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
  • noun. A migrant worker.
  • noun. A large, crescent-shaped woman's handbag with a single shoulder strap and usually a zippered top.
  • intransitive verb. To live or wander like a vagrant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A tramp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A homeless, usually penniless person, in some way associated with a life along the rails.
  • noun. A migratory laborer
  • noun. A tramp, vagabond; hence bum
  • verb. To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a disreputable vagrant
  • Word Usage
    "Meanwhile, enigmatic women dressed in hobo chic execute dance and aerial moves."
    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bobo  bobo  lobo  oboe  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    infarnal  pariah  wastrel  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    hoboes