hobos
- plural of hobo.
Example Sentences
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When you think about the folk era, when it was really hot — burning hot — it was hobos on freighters writing songs about social injustice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Longtime Dylan followers are accustomed to the peculiar cast that haunts his songs — scarlet women, jughead criminals, wanton judges, sanctified hobos and unscrupulous gamblers — and they festoon these pages as well.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
In 2014, Deadspin published the article "Candy Corn Is Garbage," which said the candy was the diet of "hobos, serial murderers and Satan."
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
The novel opens with the Dolans rousted from a baseball field where they’ve bedded down with a couple dozen other “bums, tramps, hobos, stiffs” whose seasonal work has evaporated.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
I stayed at the far end of the yard with a group of hobos waiting for a train.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
