How to pronounce“hobo”in English
Well, she describes, she said, "When I was a child" she met a man who was a "genuine
hobo" and that's how she said it. And she gave him a potato. She knows you shouldn't talk to strangers "but sometimes a stranger is merely an angel unaware and if you don't
talk to strangers you won't meet the angel." This is basically how Betty led her life.
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Definitions of “hobo”
A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (derogatory) a penniless, unemployed bum.
“He’d heard the word hobo used for travelers, heard it was short for homeward bound, or homeless boy, or Hoboken having something to do with New Jersey.”
Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
“Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.”
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