hobo

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As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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

“A Face in the Crowd” Andy Griffith plays a folksy hobo turned megalomaniacal media star in Elia Kazan’s biting 1957 satire.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021

“I been hungrier than this,” the hobo told Billy.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut