[ UK /hˈə‍ʊbə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈhoʊboʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places
  2. a vagrant
    a homeless tramp
    he tried to help the really down-and-out bums
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How To Use hobo In A Sentence

  • Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
  • Especially since Mr. Birtles himself carried a large silver urn with ice and a dew-covered rehoboam of champagne. The Dressmaker
  • Then the penalty paid in orbit matching with Mars and Phobos would be much smaller.
  • The Roads Authority imposed restrictions on the use of the B1 route between Rehoboth and Windhoek for the purpose of major roadworks.
  • In the Great Depression, hobos who roamed transiently across North America invented pictographic graffiti languages which were cryptic to the police but well understood in their community.
  • Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot - Percy helps Clarisse, when her half brothers, the demigods Phobos (fear) and Deimos (terror) take Ares chariot, which he had entrusted to Clarisse. Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » March
  • Hobongwana said that the other officials would not be expelled, pending their commitment to realigning themselves with the party within 21 days.
  • And in the FOR ME column of our imagined list, not in the treasured top slots but up there, would be the gift of Joycean spam upon a digital reemergence: boltmaker stippled scrapy heartedness burgoo overplentiful unended hydrophobous. Eveline | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
  • They insist they are not hobos; rather they prefer to be called outies.
  • In around 50 million years, Phobos faces one of two fates.
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