hobo
Speech parts
1. hobo - Noun
2. hobo - Verb
Meaning
a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places
a vagrant
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a homeless tramp
he tried to help the really down-and-out bums
Advertising poster for Continental tires showing a hobo on a unicycle with his dog running beside (c. 1900).
A shrewd hobo, played by Victor Moore, takes up residence in a Fifth Avenue mansion every Christmas season in the Academy Award-nominated comedy It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
Belling's costume became the template for the modern stock character of circus or children's clown, based on a lower class or "hobo" character, with red nose, white makeup around the eyes and mouth, and oversized clothes and shoes.
A hobo encamped at a Lower East Side gallery, surely a casualty of the Great Depression.