hobo

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Here were my reactions, roughly in order:* Why would they show a hobo on the home page?

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Quick take

a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

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noun

a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hobo.

noun

a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

Example sentences

Here were my reactions, roughly in order:* Why would they show a hobo on the home page?

It creates a "hobo highway" in which my female friends now avoid because it is filled with bums.

So basically you live like a leech or a hobo, bumming on other peoples couches.

Is the new symbol an attempt at some contrived post-millenial hobo code?

I do it much less now; for whatever reason, the folks I pass these days always seem to be effectively hobos.

This is just like a hobo saying "rgbrenner didn't give me $5 last time I asked him, this is why gay people cannot get married".

Traveler kids who go to hobo gatherings would never be caught dead at a rainbow gathering.

In the picture, the hobo is giving the middle finger, and the card usually says something like "happy birthday, go fuck yourself.

The "Physical ethernet cable" that is used by traditional manufacturers can be done by any hobo on the street, in pretty much the same time.

The urge to dress like a hobo, swear all the time, and flame everyone in sight is a classic overcompensation for years of helicopter parenting which forbade all of these things.

To further clarify, a tramp is someone who travels around but works only if/when he has to, a hobo is someone who travels around mainly looking for work and a bum is someone who does neither.

They're the ones who will change languages or frameworks according to what's fashionable, rat-hole the team on fun but irrelevant projects, and not talk to you unless you dress like a hobo and swear like a sailor.