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Vagrant and Hobo Definitions

Vagrant

One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.

Hobo

One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.

Vagrant

(Archaic) A wanderer; a rover.

Hobo

A migrant worker.

Vagrant

One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance.

Hobo

Also hobo bag A large, crescent-shaped handbag with a single shoulder strap and usually a zippered top.
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Vagrant

An animal occurring beyond its normal range; an accidental.

Hobo

To live or wander like a vagrant.

Vagrant

Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support.

Hobo

(North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.

Vagrant

Living on the streets or constituting a public nuisance.

Hobo

(North America) Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
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Vagrant

Inconstant or capricious; wayward
"She was resolved to win my vagrant fancy" (Frank Harris).

Hobo

A kind of large handbag.

Vagrant

Moving in a random fashion; having no fixed direction or pattern
Vagrant ice floes.
A vagrant aroma.

Hobo

To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.

Vagrant

Being beyond its normal range; accidental. Used of animals.

Hobo

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living.
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Vagrant

(dated) A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

Hobo

A disreputable vagrant;
A homeless tramp
He tried to help the really down-and-out bums

Vagrant

(specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.

Vagrant

Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

Vagrant

An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

Vagrant

Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
A vagrant beggar

Vagrant

Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.

Vagrant

(figurative) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

Vagrant

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.

Vagrant

Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.

Vagrant

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view.

Vagrant

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Vagrant

Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
A drifting double-dealer
The floating population
Vagrant hippies of the sixties

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