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

“We see a cactus, then a dog, then a hobo, then a disintegrated monument, then a rainstorm,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

One weathered old hobo told the preacher that if he wanted more pilgrims on that road to heaven, they should pave it with pork and beans instead of onion soup.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

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

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

Back then, there were hobos that rode the rails and lived along the tracks in between times.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson