bindle stiff

as in beggar
a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living upon graduation from college he wandered around the country as a bindle stiff, naively believing that he was at one with the downtrodden

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Noun
  • In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Consider Madewell’s roomy hobo bag in dark brown (the perfect laptop bag) or Tory Burch’s crossbody option, as essentials to wear throughout the season; then spring for a new accompaniments—like minimalist-friendly gold earrings, a sleek belt, or classic sunnies in tortoise shell.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The former, in which Burnett and Hamilton did a song-and-dance routine as Dust Bowl-era hobos, marked the first of several times that the two performed together.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Bill got his second deer, and hurt his bum knee while packing out the animal.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Once per act, a second duo crashes in on Didi and Gogo, providing the tramps’ power balance with a lurid, distended foil.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But even in an industry this transient there are some things that will never change, and Gur’s rare combination of commercial nous and creative flair are guaranteed to be on trend, year after year.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Recently unearthed clues suggest that a number of people, including survivors of the disaster as well as transients, returned to live among the ruins after the eruption, based on discoveries made during ongoing excavations of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in southern Italy.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Bindle stiff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bindle%20stiff. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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