hobo

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

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

His true-crime narrative takes him from the heights of high society to the depths of Cleveland’s so-called hobo jungles.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

Someday I’ll repay you by telling your personal business to every passing hobo.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

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

Their ambiguous feelings about hoboes, he says, are nurtured by deeper ambiguous feelings about themselves.

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

A friend recently observed that many young, relatively affluent people in his New York City neighborhood—which voted heavily for Zohran Mamdani—dress like hobos and sport Carhartt workwear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

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

He lived in his own, strange world populated by hobos, French Canadians, cardsharps, trappers, a pig with a wooden leg, farmers, hooligans, and, for reasons no one will ever understand, Frank Stallone.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

The piece, presented by the Jacaranda Music series, is based on the tales of hobos and other travelers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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