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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person asking for charity |
| Synonyms: | asker, borrower, bum, deadbeat, hobo, mendicant, panhandler, rustler, scrounger, supplicant, supplicator, tramp, vagabond |
| Main Entry: | derelict |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destitute or down-and-out person |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bum, castaway, dawdler, drifter, floater, grifter, hobo, ne'er-do-well, outcast, renegade, skidrow bum, stiff, stumblebum, tramp, vagabond, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | hobo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homeless person |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bum, derelict, drifter, migrant worker, street person, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wino |
| Notes: | a hobo is a migratory worker who likes to travel, a tramp travels without working, and a bum does not travel or work |
| Main Entry: | pauper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is poor |
| Synonyms: | almsperson, bankrupt, beggar, bum, dependent, destitute, down-and-out, have-not, homeless person, in the gutter, indigent, insolvent, lazarus, mendicant, poor person, supplicant |
| Antonyms: | rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | ragamuffin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is poor, tattered |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bum*, gamin, guttersnipe, hobo, loafer, orphan, scarecrow, street person, tatterdemalion, tramp, urchin, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wastrel |
| Antonyms: | sophisticate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rascal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unprincipled, does not work hard |
| Synonyms: | beggar, black sheep, blackguard, bully, bum, cad, cardsharp, charlatan, cheat, delinquent, devil, disgrace, felon, fraud, good-for-nothing, grafter, hooligan*, hypocrite, idler, imp, liar, loafer, mischief-maker, miscreant, opportunist, pretender, prodigal, profligate, recreant, reprobate, robber, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scoundrel, sinner, skunk, sneak*, swindler, tough*, tramp, trickster, varmint, villain, wastrel, wretch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ruin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devastate, destroy |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggar, botch, break, bring down, bring to ruin, bust, clean out, crush, decimate, deface, defeat, defile, demolish, deplete, deplore, depredate, desecrate, despoil, devour, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, drain, exhaust, fleece, impoverish, injure, lay waste, maim, make a mess of, mangle, mar, mutilate, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pauperize, pillage, rape, ravish, raze, reduce, sack, shatter, smash, spoil, spoilate, total, use up, wipe out, wrack, wreak havoc on, wreck |
| Notes: | rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, create, develop, grow |
| Main Entry: | street person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homeless person |
| Synonyms: | bag lady, bag person, beggar, bum, derelict, displaced person, down-and-out, drifter, hobo, homeless person, shopping-bag lady, shopping-bag person, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wino |
| Main Entry: | tramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is poor, desperate |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bum, derelict, down-and-out, drifter, floater, hitchhiker, hobo, homeless person, loafer, outcast, panhandler, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer |
| Notes: | a hobo is a migratory worker who likes to travel, a tramp travels without working, and a bum does not travel or work |
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