hobo
noun
1 hobo
A vagrant.
synonyms: bum, tramp.
Roget 767:
petitioner,
solicitor,
applicant;
suppliant,
supplicant;
suitor,
candidate,
claimant,
postulant,
aspirant,
competitor,
bidder;
place hunter,
pot hunter;
prizer†;
seeker.
beggar,
mendicant,
moocher,
panhandler,
freeloader,
sponger,
mumper†,
sturdy beggar,
cadger;
hotel runner,
runner,
steerer [U.S.],
tout,
touter†.
[poor person]
pauper,
homeless person,
hobo,
bum,
tramp,
bindle stiff,
bo,
knight of the road
(poverty)
804;
hippie,
flower child;
hard core unemployed;
welfare client,
welfare case.
canvasser,
bagman
etc.
758;
salesman.
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Dutch: dakloze, vagebond, zwerver, landloper
2 hobo
A worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places.
synonym: migrant worker.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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