Word.ws English Dictionary

bindlestiffs

bindlestiffs is the plural of bindlestiff.

Meaning of bindlestiff

Noun

bindlestiff (plural bindlestiffs)

  1. (US) A tramp (hobo) who carries a bedroll or a bundle of possessions.
    • The hobo was a migrant worker, generally honest. The tramp would make a living stealing but there would be mutual respect between them. The bindlestiff on the otherhand was the lowest of the low for he would steal from the bindles of his fellow wanderers.1950, James Blish, Cities in Flight

Questions about bindlestiffs

What is bindlestiffs the plural of?
Bindlestiffs is the plural of bindlestiff.

Words near bindlestiffs in the dictionary

  1. bindle stiff
  2. bindle stiffs
  3. bindles
  4. bindless
  5. bindlestiff
  6. bindlestiffs
  7. bindlet
  8. bindlets
  9. bindosome
  10. bindosomes
  11. Bindoy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bindlestiffs (page history and authors); bindlestiff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bindlestiffs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bindlestiffs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.