Synonyms of the word

hobo

• n. A homeless, usually penniless person, in some way associated with a life along the rails.
• n. A migratory laborer.
• n. (pejorative) A tramp, vagabond; hence bum.
• n. A kind of large handbag.
• v. (intransitive, perhaps pejorative) To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.

bum

• n. The buttocks.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
• n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
• v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
• n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
• adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
• adj. Unfair.
• adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
• adj. Unpleasant.
• v. To depress; to make unhappy.
• n. (dated) A humming noise.
• v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
• n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

drifter

• n. (pejorative) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
• n. (nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
• n. (automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide…
• n. (fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
• n. (mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.

floater

• n. Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.
• n. An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when…
• n. A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous…
• n. An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain…
• n. (insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
• n. (police jargon) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
• n. (sports) An unaffiliated player.
• n. (surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or…
• n. (vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
• n. (slang, by extension) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that…
• n. (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
• n. (Australia) A pie floater.
• n. (politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
• n. (politics, US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents…
• n. (US, politics) One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false…
• n. (India) A sandal.
• n. A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).

tramp

• n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
• n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
• n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
• n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
• n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
• v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
• v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
• v. To hitchhike.
• v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
• v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

vagabond

• n. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
• n. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without…
• v. To roam, as a vagabond.
• adj. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

vagrant

• n. A person without a home; a wanderer.
• n. (ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
• adj. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
• adj. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.