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
Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
The Row Half Moon hobo bag The Row Half Moon leather shoulder bag
The Row
Half Moon hobo bag
The Row
Half Moon shoulder bag
The Idaho Bag
Count on The Row to make a subtle carryall feel exciting.
—Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
It is commonly thought that hobo and brown recluse spiders cause necrotic bites in this state, when in fact the brown recluse is not found in Oregon and the hobo spider does not cause necrotic bites.
—oregonlive, 18 July 2023
More than that, by actually living on the trail, Jack became, arguably, something unique: a hobo ambassador who was the AT’s living, breathing, ambulating encyclopedia.
—Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
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Verb
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
The Row Half Moon hobo bag The Row Half Moon leather shoulder bag
The Row
Half Moon hobo bag
The Row
Half Moon shoulder bag
The Idaho Bag
Count on The Row to make a subtle carryall feel exciting.
—Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
It is commonly thought that hobo and brown recluse spiders cause necrotic bites in this state, when in fact the brown recluse is not found in Oregon and the hobo spider does not cause necrotic bites.
—oregonlive, 18 July 2023
More than that, by actually living on the trail, Jack became, arguably, something unique: a hobo ambassador who was the AT’s living, breathing, ambulating encyclopedia.
—Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hobo
Noun
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Got a lot of mountains to climb, had to leave some beggars behind.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 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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Celebratory backslaps, encouraging bum-pats and the fall of opposition wickets celebrated en masse are often an indication of a team’s togetherness.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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With both travel and programming budgets under pressure, all markets have to make a strong case to get buyer and seller bums on seats (or, more accurately, into screening booths and meeting rooms).—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 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 15 Sep. 2025.
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