Hobo

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
  • n. A migrant worker.
  • verb-intransitive. To live or wander like a vagrant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A homeless, usually penniless person, in some way associated with a life along the rails.
  • n. A migratory laborer
  • n. A tramp, vagabond; hence bum
  • v. To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tramp.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a disreputable vagrant
  • Variant
    hoboes   
    Form
    hobo spider    hoboism    hobohemia   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tramp    bum    vagabond   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bobo    bobo    lobo    oboe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wastrel    pariah    infarnal