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hobo
noun- a vagrant US, 1885
Uncertainly derived from “hoeboy” (a migrant agricultural labourer) or the exclamation “Ho boy!” (used by mail carriers). - His father was a wine hobo. They hopped freights together. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Carroll Brown, 9 May 1961
- I didn’t quite look like a stage hobo about to die of destitution. — Edwin Lefevere, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, 1994
- in trucking, a tractor trailer that is moved from one terminal to another US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 83, 1971
- a homing bomb, one with a targeting capability US
- But six months earlier, in May 1973, a 2,000-pound “Hobo” (Homing Bomb) had obliterated a bridge just north of Hanoi which had withstood repeated onslaughts of conventional bombs. — James W. Canan, The Superwarriors, p. 311, 1975
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