Labrinth

When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

American Musician

Kirk Douglas

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

American Actor

Jhonen Vasquez

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

American Cartoonist

Pete Seeger

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Jane Lynch

I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.

American Actress

Dawn Richard

I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.

Jessie James Decker

I'd rather look like a hobo and be super comfortable than wear something not comfortable.

Johnny Depp

When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.

Art Linkletter

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

American Journalist

Greg Gutfeld

Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.

American Author

The term may imply a judgmental view of someone's lifestyle.

Negative Connotation

'Hobo' often suggests choice in traveling and living frugally.

Not Homeless

Historically, hobos are often depicted with a bindle over the shoulder.

Cultural Imagery

Hobos are strongly associated with the Great Depression era in the US.

Great Depression

Hobos historically traveled by sneaking onto freight trains.

Railroad Travel

Hobos developed a system of symbols to communicate with each other.

Hobo Code

In slang, 'hobo' suggests someone not contributing anything at an event.

Slang Usage

Using 'hobo' in social contexts can be mildly insulting.

Lightly Pejorative

Avoid confusing 'hobo' with homeless; 'hobo' implies attending without contributing.

Occasional Misuse

 hitchhikers, vagrants and tramps. In most of our minds, the vagabond is a creature from the past. The word "hobo" conjures up an old black and white image of a weathered old man covered in coal, legs dangling out of a boxcar,

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 approximately 50 tons of space debris that falls on the Earth's surface every day is of that size meteorites however are as large as boulders the largest meteorite found on earth is the hobo meteorite discovered

Hobo

Negative Connotation

Not Homeless

Cultural Imagery

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