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Hobo 39: Gypsy fortune-tellers [...] hail every passer-by for the privilege of ‘reading’ his mind, and, perhaps, in order to turn a trick at his expense.at turn a trick, v.1
Hobo 39: Gypsy fortune-tellers [...] hail every passer-by for the privilege of ‘reading’ his mind, and, perhaps, in order to turn a trick at his expense. Hobo 101: [as cit. 1918].at alky stiff (n.) under alky, adj.
Hobo 25: Different men announce that they were headed for so and so and that the freight starts at such a time.at so-and-so, n.
Hobo 160: A few years ago, Galesburg, Illinois, was known throughout the country for the ‘bad’ colored policeman who guarded the yards.at bad, adj.
Hobo 53: This practice of walking the streets all night, snatching a wink of sleep here and a little rest there, is termed, in the parlance of the road, ‘carrying the banner’.at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
Hobo 48: He was able to ‘flop’ in a bed even though he came to town without money late in the afternoon; whereas many other men in the same position would have been forced to ‘carry the banner’.at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
Hobo 27: The barrel-house was a rooming-house, saloon, and house of prostitution all in one.at barrelhouse, n.
Hobo 33: He was cursing the bugs and saying that he knew an engine room that had this ‘place beat all hollow’.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
Hobo 79: The brother tried to persuade him to wait till he had saved enough money to pay his fare but he preferred to take his ‘chances,’ so he was ‘beating his way’.at beat one’s way (v.) under beat, v.
Hobo 52: This is a great temptation to men who have been living ‘close to their bellies’ for months.at close to one’s belly (adj.) under belly, n.
Hobo 54: They usually make it a point to get on hand at the beginning of winter a large supply of overcoats, or ‘bennies,’ and other clothes that are either sold at moderate prices or are given away.at benny, n.1
Hobo 23: All their enemies [...] are town clowns, sky pilots, Bible ranters, bulls, politicians, home guards, hicks, stool pigeons, systems, scissor bills, and capitalists.at bible-ranter (n.) under bible, n.
Hobo 67: Not infrequently ‘coke heads’ or ‘snow-birds’ are found among the hobo workers.at snow bird, n.2
‘Gila Monster Route’ in Hobo 195: They had mooched the stem and threw their feet, / And speared four bits on which to eat.at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
Hobo 67: In Chicago today bootleggers and blind pigs in the vicinity of the ‘stem’ thrive upon the homeless man’s love for liquor.at blind pig, n.
Hobo 102: Peggy is a one-legged man. Stumpy is a legless man. Wingy is a man with one or both arms off. Blinky is a man with one or both eyes defected. A Dummy is a man who is dumb or deaf and dumb.at blink, n.1
Hobo 6: It is a favourite place for the ‘bos’ to sleep in summer or to enjoy their leisure, relating their adventures and reading the papers.at bo, n.1
Hobo 67: A ‘booze-hoister’ indulges in a liquor spree.at booze-hoister (n.) under booze, n.
‘Gila Monster Route’ in Hobo 195: He shook them out of their boozy nap, / With a husky voice and a loaded sap.at boozy, adj.
Hobo 69: He is a good beggar and manages to get from fifty cents to a dollar a day from the ‘boys’ on the ‘stem’.at boys, the, n.
Hobo 9: Washington Square is the center of the northern area. To the ‘bos’ it is ‘Bughouse Square’.at bughouse square, n.
‘Gila Monster Route’ in Hobo 195: He thought of the time he lost his pal / In the hostile berg of Stockton, Cal.at burg, n.1
Hobo 61: They are burning up to learn something on their own hook; and they’ll learn it, too.at burn up, v.
Hobo 20: Jungle crimes include [...] ‘buzzing,’ or making the jungle a permanent hangout for jungle ‘buzzards’ who subsist on the leavings of meals.at buzz, v.1
Hobo 20: Jungle crimes include [...] ‘buzzing,’ or making the jungle a permanent hangout for jungle ‘buzzards’ who subsist on the leavings of meals.at buzzard, n.
Hobo 67: Not infrequently ‘coke heads’ or ‘snow-birds’ are found among the hobo workers.at cokehead (n.) under coke, n.1
‘Gila Monster Route’ in Hobo 194: He was ditched by the ‘shack’, and cruel fate, / The ‘con’ highballed, and the manifest freight, / Pulled out on the stem behind the mail, / And beat it east on a sanded rail.at con, n.1
Hobo 221: I leave an opening for a drunk or someone to ask me a question or crack a joke.at crack, v.1
Hobo 75: H. has a great chart that he uses to preach evolution to the curb-stone audiences.at curbstone, adj.
Hobo 9: Around the edges of the square the curbstone orators gather their audiences.at curbstone philosopher (n.) under curbstone, adj.
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