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The Big Town - a) New York City b) Chicagoīindle - a bundle, bag, bedroll, or backpack carried by a hoboīindle stick - a stick used to carry a bindle over the shoulderīindle stiff - a) a hobo who carries his gear in a sack or bundle b) a hobo who carries his beddingīiscuit shooter - camp waiter or hash slingerīitter Biscuit Line - Piedmont divisions of the Southern RRīlack bottle - poison allegedly given to hoboes in hospitalsīlanket stiff - a hobo who carries his beddingīlind - the space between the engine and the mail or baggage carīlind baggage - hoboes who ride the blindīlinky - a train rider who lost one or both eyesīlisters - beggars who put chemicals on their limbs to simulate ugly sores

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Be patient while this page loads.Ĭompiled from many books on hoboes, and also some original material supplied to the author.Ī B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪlkee stiff - a tramp that consumed alcoholĪll Tramps Sent Free - Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe RRĪngel - a person who gives more than you expectĪngelina - a punk or road kid acting as a hobo's companionĪpple Butter Route - Norfolk and Western RR (southern Ohio)Īxle swinging - riding under a railroad carīadorder - a boxcar on its way to the repair yardīad road - a railroad or division where trainmen are especially hard on hoboesīall lump - sandwiches or cake wrapped up and handed to a trampīalloon - a pack or bedroll, carried over the back or shoulderīaraby - a genteel, quiet, respectful trampīarnacle - a fellow who sticks to one job a year or moreīarrel house - a cheap, filthy lodging houseīattleship - a high-sided steel coal car usually with a hopper or dump bottomīeefer - a) one who whines b) an informerīelly of a drag - the underside of a slow freight trainīelly robber - a boarding boss who tries to save money on foodīig Ole - a fellow who tries to show the boss how strong he isīig Rock Candy Mountain - the hobo's paradise Alpert OHNS webpages often have too many graphics/pictures to display swiftly.

‘So he dressed down, stopped shaving and tried to pass himself off as just another anonymous hobo.OHNS: A Dictionary of Old Hobo Slang −by Stephen P.

‘He knew it was probably just some hobo, but it was still unnerving.’.

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‘C'mon, he's a movie star, not some random hobo on the street!’.‘Lauren laughed, ‘He was probably some hobo on the streets before.’’.Phil, you said you'd do anything to save our friendship.’ ‘When we talked to that deranged hobo in the park who looked kind of like Dr.‘During my Mother's growing up days an old hobo lived in a dugout in the vicinity of her little town.’.‘I turned to see an unshaven, uncleaned, homeless hobo.’.‘Instead the poor guys ‘looked like hoboes and lived like pigs.’’.‘Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.’.‘In the hard times of the 1930s, unemployed men and transient hobos often took temporary refuge on the island, erecting small shantytowns of tents.’.‘A few hobos and bag ladies wearing multiple layers of dirty, mismatched clothing leaned against the wall adjacent to the bench.’.‘I have a feeling I looked like a homeless hobo that sleeps under anything she can find.’.‘Migration was not limited to the poor, of course, although existing studies of tramps and hoboes present intriguing questions.’.‘Nonetheless, hobos, like tramps, acquired a reputation for their carefree way of life, their predilection for booze, and a canon of whimsical folk songs and stories.’.

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