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
Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Rich earth tones lean into the season’s palette, while hobo shapes and mini shoulder bags feel especially of-the-moment.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2025
MakeMeChic Small Hobo Clutch Part hobo, part clutch, this red purse has a similar vibe to Lohan’s bag thanks to the front flap and fringe.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
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—Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
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Noun
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
Rich earth tones lean into the season’s palette, while hobo shapes and mini shoulder bags feel especially of-the-moment.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2025
MakeMeChic Small Hobo Clutch Part hobo, part clutch, this red purse has a similar vibe to Lohan’s bag thanks to the front flap and fringe.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
From trending brown to timeless black, from relaxed hobos to polished structured pieces, shop the best suede bags to elevate your wardrobe this season ahead.
—Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hobo
Noun
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Hollywood turned him into a beggar.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
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In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The pair’s snow boots tramped the nearly week-old Kansas City snow, two candles clutched in their small hands.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
30 Jan. 2026
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Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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As older leaders retire, the days of bums on seats five days a week are likely to fade with them.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Here, in the rugged, remote Santa Cruz Mountains, one of California’s coastal ranges, the counterculture had found one of its first bucolic, dharma-bum milieus.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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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But in the wake of the fire and regular break-ins by vagrants, the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission approved demolition on account of economic hardship in December 2024.—
Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2026
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Sadly, the reason bus shelters are disappearing is that the city does not wish to provide seating for homeless people or other kinds of vagrants who may congregate there.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
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“Hobo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hobo. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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