as in bum
a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living
sundowners showing up at a sheep station looking for work
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Recent Examples of sundowner
On the 52nd floor, swim in the city’s highest infinity pool or sip sundowners at Gong, London’s highest hotel bar.
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Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
What really gives the property energy is the way that it’s become a fixture for the local community, with families walking dogs, roller-skating down the boardwalk, commissioning sandcastles to mark anniversaries, or settling onto the hotel’s grand lawns for sundowners with a soccer ball.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
Outings are typically about three hours long, with a coffee or sundowner break in the middle.
—Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
Evenings ended with sundowners by the bonfire pit.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
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Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
What really gives the property energy is the way that it’s become a fixture for the local community, with families walking dogs, roller-skating down the boardwalk, commissioning sandcastles to mark anniversaries, or settling onto the hotel’s grand lawns for sundowners with a soccer ball.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
Outings are typically about three hours long, with a coffee or sundowner break in the middle.
—Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
Evenings ended with sundowners by the bonfire pit.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sundowner
Noun
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Her assignment, along with another non-skiing ski bum friend of hers, was to secure that spot.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
15 Mar. 2026
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Trying to warm up your bum from the cold was said to produce heavier periods.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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So disguised as a beggar, Odysseus shows up at his palace, and he is not treated very nicely by the suitors who have camped out in his house.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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Hollywood turned him into a beggar.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The bag is a yet unreleased style, which features a hobo bag-style shape and a rich, burgundy lining.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
10 Mar. 2026
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The hobo bag has been popular with several brands over the past few seasons.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
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Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Passive sonar listens quietly for engine noise, or transient sounds such as a torpedo tube being opened.—
James Dwyer,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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According to the report, officers responded to a dispatch call describing Petit as a transient carrying a gun and lighting trash on fire in a residential neighborhood.—
Andrea Klick,
Daily News,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Long the purview of vagabond surfers, its coastline is peppered with small towns, like Venao, Guanico, and Cambutal, that are in various stages of being reshaped by bohemian expats.—
David Amsden,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Dec. 2025
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There are no talking-head interviews putting addiction into a moral context, nor are there romanticized vagabonds.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Dec. 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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“Sundowner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sundowner. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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