hobo

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ho=bo

CIDE DICTIONARY

hobo, n. [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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hobo, n. (pl. -oes or -os) US a wandering worker; a tramp.

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

hobo

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

ROGET THESAURUS

hobo

Petitioner

N 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, tout, touter, pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty), hippie, flower child, hard core unemployed, welfare client, welfare case, canvasser, bagman, salesman.

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.