Definition of "hobo" []

• One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood. (noun)
• A migrant worker. (noun)
• To live or wander like a vagrant. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Meanwhile, enigmatic women dressed in hobo chic execute dance and aerial moves."
• "Then you have some hobo from the female species on here begging people to vote democratic or independent in 2012."
• "Then there are places like the quarries at Rutland, Vermont, where the hobo is exploited, the unearned energy in his body, which he has accumulated by "battering on the drag" or "slamming gates," being extracted for the benefit of that particular community."