as in beggar
a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living
kind folks who always gave hoboes who came to the farm a meal and then sent them on their way
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Recent Examples of hobo
Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2025
Extra hooks allow the bag to transform into a trapezoidal hobo shape.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024
The towering figure of a cheerful, cartoonish hobo was the mascot of a chain of Hobo Joe's Restaurants that were popular in the 1960s through the mid-1980s.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Down here your lungs breathed fibs right along with Bradford pear, Confederate jasmine, Creole mirepoix, and fresh beignets—and the bad stuff too, the flood mold, hot-trash crawfish shells, tourist-buggy horse s—, and Bourbon Street’s hobo funk of liquor, piss, and puke.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
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Verb
On May 3, she was seen toting around the brand's slouchy black hobo bag with gunmetal hardware before switching to one of their smaller shoulder bags for a concert later that night.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2025
Extra hooks allow the bag to transform into a trapezoidal hobo shape.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024
The towering figure of a cheerful, cartoonish hobo was the mascot of a chain of Hobo Joe's Restaurants that were popular in the 1960s through the mid-1980s.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Down here your lungs breathed fibs right along with Bradford pear, Confederate jasmine, Creole mirepoix, and fresh beignets—and the bad stuff too, the flood mold, hot-trash crawfish shells, tourist-buggy horse s—, and Bourbon Street’s hobo funk of liquor, piss, and puke.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hobo
Noun
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Brando, the owner of an atoll in Tahiti, where his family dwelled, had become the beggar of Hollywood, who had to feed on crumbs.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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Got a lot of mountains to climb, had to leave some beggars behind.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The jam band scene – long reigned over by groups like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band – exploded in the Nineties as newer artists like Phish and Widespread Panic began filling arenas and fomenting their own rabid vagabonding fanbases.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
9 July 2025
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In 1978, Wenner sold the magazine to Larry Burke, a young man from Chicago who had spent a chunk of his twenties vagabonding around Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In Commonweal a Berrigan brother wrote from jail of the hopeful solidarity among his Black cellmates; Catholic Worker newspapers, their cheap ink faded by an afternoon of sunlight, described finding Christ among tramps on the breadline and exhorted readers to join Him.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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Daniels’ first foray into the horror genre shot to No. 1 on Netflix after dropping Aug. 30, which may have a little bit — or a whole lot — to do with Close, who clearly had the time of her life playing a tramp named Alberta.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Among them are South Korean’s CIA Director (Ryoo Seung-bum) and the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport (Takayuki Yamada).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Arundhati Roy identifies as a vagrant.—
Madeline Leung Coleman,
Vulture,
27 Aug. 2025
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Not long ago, vagrants stole my sister’s bikes.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Hobo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hobo. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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