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
There’s space for three additional guests, a Nespresso coffee machine for a quick pick-me-up during morning drives, and even Sperka’s signature martini bar for enjoying sundowners at the end of the day.
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Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Rascal has a flat-top roof where the group gathered most nights for canapes and sundowners at anchor, or when under way, sat in lounges on the sun deck, watching the islands in the distance.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
Guests also receive a sundowner drink of the alcoholic or non-alcoholic variety.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
Enjoy the rooftop bar’s views over the foothills nearby with a sundowner or two.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
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Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Rascal has a flat-top roof where the group gathered most nights for canapes and sundowners at anchor, or when under way, sat in lounges on the sun deck, watching the islands in the distance.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
Guests also receive a sundowner drink of the alcoholic or non-alcoholic variety.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
Enjoy the rooftop bar’s views over the foothills nearby with a sundowner or two.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sundowner
Noun
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And the oversized top has a split hem that falls below the bum.—
Melody Kazel,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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Landry, a captain and starting edge defender, has been playing on a bum wheel since Week 6 at New Orleans.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
24 Dec. 2025
Noun
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In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In fact, she was also seen wearing these kicks in New York back in May, pairing the sneakers her aforementioned Hammitt hobo bag with gunmetal grommets.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
21 Dec. 2025
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One mask depicts a frowning hobo with a 5 o'clock shadow that represents the aforementioned vagrant.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Dec. 2025
Noun
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As historian Kelly Lytle Hernández writes, one thing that stood in the way of this vision was the figure of the tramp.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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Scientists at California’s Palomar Observatory have recently discovered several instances of transient, star-like flashes in photographs from the 1950s, according to a research paper published in Nature’s Scientific Reports on Oct. 20, 2025.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
3 Dec. 2025
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Zwicky, which scans the night sky with a wide-field camera, has a reputation of enabling astronomers to discover transients or fleeting cosmic phenomena, such as quickly flaring supernovae.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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This interstellar vagabond presumably formed in a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around another star, the sites of active planet formation.—
Darryl Seligman,
Space.com,
15 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Indeed, a study of early 19th-century court records found that in Philadelphia, nearly half of those convicted as vagrants were African American — a figure wildly disproportionate to the city’s minority Black population.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Arundhati Roy identifies as a vagrant.—
Madeline Leung Coleman,
Vulture,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Sundowner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sundowner. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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