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hobosexual

hobosexual noun: a person sexually attracted to tramps or hobos.

Noun

hobosexual (plural hobosexuals)

  1. A person sexually attracted to tramps or hobos.
    • You’re a hobosexual — do you hear me! — a hobosexual! A man who can only get excited by women who are real tramps‼1993, David A. Rudnitsky, Men Who Hate Themselves and the Women Who Agree with Them, pages 160–161
  2. A person whose sexual partner is a bum lay.
    • “Your Honor,” the young man said, “I just can’t live with my wife anymore. She’s a hobosexual.”
      “Just one moment,” interrupted the judge. “Don’t you mean homosexual?”
      “I mean hobosexual. You see, my wife’s a bum lay.”2004, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book of Couples, page 40
  3. A sex partner who is a bum.
    • “I never knew much about this boy’s father. He came through here, courted me and we got married. Soon afterwards I found out he was a hobosexual.”
      “You mean homosexual,” came the correction.
      “No, sir, I mean hobosexual. He was just a no-good, passionate bum.”2004, Kuldeep Saluja, The Unofficial Joke Book of South Africa, page 48
  4. One who fucks bums (anuses); an assfucker; in particular, a gay man.
    • ‘Smart-ass, know-it-all, arrogant pricks, with their terrorist sympathies, their hobosexual neighbors — ’
      ‘Hobosexual?’
      ‘Bum fuckers! Fags!’2010, R. Scott Bakker, Neuropath, chapter 12?
  5. A person of an unkempt appearance.
    • “You mean the hobosexual looking dude? Looks like somebody shook him up in a bag, and then tossed him out?”
      Madison giggled. “That’s funny, where did you get hobosexual from?”
      “Judging from the looks of him, he surely isn’t meticulous about his looks like a metrosexual.”2010, Danita Carter, Murder in the Hamptons, page 277
    Antonyms:
    metrosexual
  6. A person who seeks out romantic relationships in order to secure housing.

Antonyms of hobosexual

Forms of hobosexual

pluralhobosexuals

Origin of hobosexual

Formed as hobo + sexual, punning on homosexual; compare hobohemia and metrosexual.

Questions about hobosexual

What does hobosexual mean?
Hobosexual means a person sexually attracted to tramps or hobos.
What part of speech is hobosexual?
Hobosexual is a noun.
What is the plural of hobosexual?
The plural of hobosexual is hobosexuals.

Words near hobosexual in the dictionary

  1. hoboism
  2. Hoboken
  3. Hobokenite
  4. hobolike
  5. hobos
  6. hobosexual
  7. hobosexuality
  8. hobosexuals
  9. hoboy
  10. hoboys
  11. Hobro

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