bindle stiff

noun

Slang.

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First recorded in 1900–05

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But what, pray, is a bindle stiff?

"Bindle stiff" is an American hobo term.

The hobo who does carry a bundle, be it ever so little, is regarded as a stuck-up stiff or bindle stiff.

For I once was, and was called, a "bindle stiff."

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