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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | tramp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk heavily |
| Synonyms: | crush, footslog, gallop, hike, hop, march, navigate, plod, pound, ramble, range, roam, rove, slog, stamp, stodge, stomp, stroll, stump, thud, toil, tour, traipse, trample, tread, trek, trip, tromp, trudge, walk over |
| Notes: | a hobo is a migratory worker who likes to travel, a tramp travels without working, and a bum does not travel or work |
| Antonyms: | tiptoe |
| Main Entry: | beggar |
| 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: | bum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | bindle, black sheep, derelict, drifter, floater, gutterpup, guttersnipe, hobo, stiff*, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant |
| Notes: | a hobo is a migratory worker who likes to travel, a tramp travels without working, and a bum does not travel or work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make thumping noise |
| Synonyms: | barge, bumble, clatter, clomp, galumph, hobble, limp, lumber, plod, scuff, stamp, stomp, stumble, stump, thud, thump, tramp |
| 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: | drifter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wanderer |
| Synonyms: | derelict, hobo, itinerant, nomad, rolling stone, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | floozy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexually promiscuous woman |
| Synonyms: | bimbo, broad, doxy, easy make, hooker, moll, nympho, piece of tail, prostitute, tramp, whore |
| Main Entry: | good-for-nothing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is idle, worthless |
| Synonyms: | bad lot, black sheep, bum, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, profligate, rapscallion, scalawag, scamp, tramp, vagabond, waster, wastrel |
| Antonyms: | hard worker |
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