hobo
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Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Yes, it wasn't a boy; it was a little girl, but I couldn't tell because she was dressed like a hobo.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023
Over a century, L.A.’s arroyos have drawn graffitists and their chroniclers — hobo, cholo and otherwise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
The trilogy includes “The Areas of My Expertise,” a book that contains, among other things, a list of 700 hobo names.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
“Hey, the hobo camp will be there tomorrow. I wouldn’t mind a bath neither.”
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
Starting with “Rolling Nowhere,” his 1984 account of hopping trains with hoboes, Conover has made a career of immersing himself in seemingly impenetrable subcultures, then writing with sympathy and insight about his experiences.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
He traveled around the world — Haiti, Bosnia, Afghanistan — for high-profile magazine assignments and rode the rails across the United States, chronicling some of the last of the hoboes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Or will Rory’s talk of hoboes and the inconsequence of mankind as seen from space have some effect on Pete’s work on the new alpine skiing account?
From Slate ● May 7, 2012
Britt, Iowa, hung its bunting out again last week; the hoboes were coming to town.
From Time Magazine Archive
He traveled for a long time with the hoboes and worked for a short time as a scarecrow.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
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
Their skillful thrusting and parrying reminds us of Ben and Gus’s close kinship to Didi and Gogo, the bickering hobos of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
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
