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hobo

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ho·bo /ˈhəʊbəʊ $ ˈhoʊboʊ/ noun (plural hobos) [countable] American English  someone who travels around and has no home or regular job 流浪汉,无业游民 SYN British English tramp
Examples from the Corpus
hoboThey saw the dead hobo again.Jack took it off the hobo after he and Eddie went down to help him and found he was dead.The bull outran him and beat him with a club, and when the hobo went down, he stayed down.The hobo had only one shoe, the other foot wrapped in newspaper and tied with String.The hobo was a young man, which shocked the brothers.If anything happens to this hobo, only the buzzards will care.Words such as tramp, hobo and vagrant offended him, terms bandied about by an unsympathetic society.
Origin hobo (1800-1900) Perhaps from the greeting ho, boy!
ho·bo nounChineseSyllable
who Corpus home no travels or someone around has regular job and


hobo
hobo /ˈhəʊbəʊ $ ˈhoʊboʊ/ noun (plural hobos) [countable] American English
 Date: 1800-1900
 Origin: Perhaps from the greeting ho, boy!
someone who travels around and has no home or regular job
   SYN  tramp British English


hoboBrE /ˈhəʊbəʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhoʊboʊ/ 🔊 noun (
plural
hobos
)
(old-fashioned, especially NAmE)
a person who travels from place to place looking for work, especially on farms 流浪的失业工人;(尤指农场)季节工人,零工 = tramp (1)