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bindle stiffs

bindle stiffs is the plural of bindle stiff.

Meaning of bindle stiff

Noun

bindle stiff (plural bindle stiffs)

  1. A hobo, misfit, criminal, wanderer, or drifting harvest worker.
    • “So maybe you better jus’ scatter along now, ’cause Curley maybe ain’t gonna like his wife out in the barn with us ‘bindle stiffs.’ ”1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede
    Synonyms:
    bindle punk

Questions about bindle stiffs

What is bindle stiffs the plural of?
Bindle stiffs is the plural of bindle stiff.

Words near bindle stiffs in the dictionary

  1. bindis
  2. bindle
  3. bindle punk
  4. bindle punks
  5. bindle stiff
  6. bindle stiffs
  7. bindles
  8. bindless
  9. bindlestiff
  10. bindlestiffs
  11. bindlet

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