hobo

hobo
Synonyms and related words:
Arab, Bowery bum, alien, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, cadger, caitiff, case, character, crackpot, crank, derelict, devil, dogie, drifter, drunkard, eccentric, fanatic, floater, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, hermit, homeless waif, human wreck, idler, kook, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, lone wolf, loner, losel, lowlife, mauvais sujet, maverick, mean wretch, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, meshuggenah, moocher, mucker, mudlark, natural, no-good, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outsider, panhandler, pariah, pauvre diable, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rara avis, rounder, sad case, sad sack, schnorrer, screwball, scrounger, ski bum, skid-row bum, solitary, stiff, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, truant, turnpiker, type, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, worthless fellow, wretch, zealot

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Hobo — is a term that refers to a subculture of wandering homeless people, [cite web | authorlink = Answers.com | title = hobo. | work = The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company |… …   Wikipedia

  • Hobo — Bandera …   Wikipedia Español

  • hobo — n. m. (Québec) Vieilli Vagabond qui fait de petits travaux ponctuels pour subsister. Avoir l air d un vrai hobo. Clochard. (V. robineux.) …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • hobo — (de or. caribe) m. Jobo (árbol anacardiáceo). * * * hobo. (Voz caribe). m. Ant. jobo …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • hobo — ☆ hobo [hō′bō ] n. pl. hobos or hoboes [< ?] 1. a migratory worker: so used by such workers themselves 2. a vagrant; tramp vi. to travel in the manner of a hobo SYN. VAGRANT …   English World dictionary

  • Hobo — Ho bo, n.; pl. {Hobos} or {Hoboes}. [Of uncertain origin.] A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] {Ho bo*ism}, n. Syn: tramp, bum. [Webster… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hobo — 1889, Western U.S., of unknown origin. Barnhart compares early 19c. English dialectal hawbuck lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin. Or possibly from ho, boy, a workers call on late 19c. western U.S. railroads. Facetious formation hobohemia,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • hobo — n tramp, vagrant, *vagabond, truant, bum …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • hobo — [n] homeless person beggar, bum, derelict, drifter, migrant worker, street person, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wino; concepts 412,423 …   New thesaurus

  • hobo — (Voz caribe). m. Ant. jobo …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • hobo — ► NOUN (pl. hoboes or hobos) N. Amer. ▪ a vagrant. ORIGIN of unknown origin …   English terms dictionary

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