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Meanings of hobo in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tramp"
Examples for "tramp"
1
Workers no longer tramp or cycle home but drive warm, smart cars.
2
Presently the heavy tramp of the patrol was heard in the street.
3
The General rose, and once more his military tramp shook the gallery.
4
At this instant the tramp of horses was heard in the courtyard.
5
He heard the tramp of a million feet in the great cities.
1
I remembered something Trapp had told me once about his bridge-bum days.
2
The trim, khaki-garbed enlistment officer rubs elbows with the lodging house bum.
3
Guess the lamp is on the bum, but you hardly need that.
4
The law, missing the right quarry, descends on the slower-moving, harmless bum.
5
I just couldn't resist giving him the bum's rush for a change.
Usage of hobo in English
1
I certainly hope so, given that I've been a borderline hobo myself.
2
Both Pat and Waring knew that the hobo was wanted in Stacey.
3
I hate the place, I loathe it like a hobo hates water.
4
I figured to bluff him into telling which way the hobo went.
5
The two men who came boldly forward certainly had a hobo look.
6
Presently, after a little delay, the reformed hobo came into the room.
7
And so it went, fifteen seconds and thirty days to each hobo.
8
He had been thinking about that hobo and his mind had .
9
Less than a mile from the lot, I pass a hobo jungle.
10
Thus it went like clockwork, fifteen seconds to a hobo-andthirty days.
11
The hobo paused, his mouth open, his head twisted to one side.
12
Mac said he was a sick hobo, working his way to St.
13
As chance would have it, this man was not a genuine hobo.
14
You'd have to be a hobo before you'd get kindness from her.
15
I didn't just fancy writing my best stationery letters to some hobo.
16
She opened her hobo bag to see if she had train fare.
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Hobo through the time
Hobo across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common