How to use hobo in a sentence

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• Groups sit around bonfires to burn old bankruptcy papers and share hobo stew.2017 November 17, Arlie Russell Hochschild, “In ‘Nomadland,’ the Golden Years Are the Wander Years”, in The New York Times Book Review…. From the entry hobo stew
• Hobos of the modern age who happened upon autoracks had struck gold.2011, Josh Mack, The Hobo Handbook: A Field Guide to Living by Your Own Rules. From the entry autorack
• Bull's Eye pretends he's a hobo, pulling out his Hoover flags, empty pockets turned inside out.2009, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry Hoover flag
• When I scored rocks and bags off tumbleweed hobos blowing through the no-man's-land of Hackney estates, I conducted no litmus test.2014, Russell Brand, “Prologue”, in Revolution, →ISBN, page xiii. From the entry rock
• He had a plug of tobacco fixed firmly in his left cheek and talked around it in fluent hobo slang.2009, Karen Schwabach, The Hope Chest, page 50. From the entry Angelina
• When a hobo roams through the outback with a matilda on his back, he is said to be “waltzing matilda.”1999, Milton Finkelstein, Global geography. From the entry matilda
• The hobo was a migrant worker, generally honest.1950, James Blish, Cities in Flight. From the entry bindlestiff
• Like a hungry hobo locked up in a piehouse.1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry thataway
• Real laptop hobos you'll find in the windows of coffee shops up the street that offer free WiFi and unprotected electrical outlets.2011 September 30, Stephen Quinn, “Hobo with a laptop”, in Globe and Mail. From the entry laptop hobo
• He is not embarrassed by the sans gene of the hobo, nor put out of countenance by the etiquette of the prince.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 46”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry sans gêne
• The "laptop hobo" phenomenon — patrons buying one coffee and spending ensuing hours browsing the Web — is a growing issue with food and beverage operations.2013 July 5, Steve Raabe, “Colorado coffee shops putting limits on power, Wi-Fi use”, in Denver Post. From the entry laptop hobo
• Proclaiming a millennial vision of “One Big Union,” the hobo insurgents won the day, ousting the home-guard and dedicating the IWW to direct economic action exclusively.2010, Todd DePastino, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, page 95. From the entry bummery
• In the Big Rock Candy Mountains lies a happy hobo land where the boxcars are all empty, where there are cigaret trees and rock-and-rye springs and the whangdoodle sings.1960 August 22, “Yarns and Whoppers and Practical Jokes”, in Life, 49 (8): 56. From the entry whangdoodle

Meaning of hobo

1. noun A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (derogatory) a penniless, unemployed bum.
2. noun Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
3. noun A kind of large handbag.

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How do you use hobo in a sentence?

Hobo is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.”

What is a short sentence with hobo?

“The hobo was a migrant worker, generally honest.”

What does hobo mean?

Hobo means a wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (derogatory) a penniless, unemployed bum.