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| Main Entry: |
street person
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| 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: | 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: | 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: | vagrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person with no permanent home and often with no means of support |
| Synonyms: | drifter, floater, homeless person, itinerant, rolling stone, street person, transient, wanderer |
| Notes: | a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
| Main Entry: | bag lady |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homeless woman |
| Synonyms: | bag person, bum, hobo, shopping bag lady, shopping cart lady, street person |
| Main Entry: | panhandler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | bum, mendicant, street person, tramp, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | moocher |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | alms person, almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, cadger, dependent, down-and-out, guttersnipe, indigent, mendicant, pauper, poor person, poverty-stricken person, street person, suppliant, vagrant, ward of state |
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