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An old-time hobo practice, now virtually obsolete. The hobo would place a board across truss rods under a car and ride on it. This was very dangerous even in pleasant weather, and the possibility was ever present that you might doze, get careless, become too cramped, or lose your nerve-and roll under the wheels
Same as brake club. Club winder is switchman or brakeman. A brakeman's club was usually his only weapon of defense against hoboes
Hobo riding freight on top
Tramp (hobo). I gave me last apple to that old paraffin
Hobo cocktail is Black−American slang for a glass of water.
Searching a freight train for hobos. In bygone days it was common practice for trainmen to collect money from freight-riding 'bos, often at the rate of a dollar a division
Tramp (hobo). Look at that bunch of thirteen amps over there. thirteen amps is the standard electrical receptacle in Britain
Brakeman. Derived from initial B(ee) of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, or perhaps from some brakemen's habit of arousing hobos by applying a brake club to the soles of their shoes
Miss a meal. Boomers often did that; hoboes still do
Ticket For hobos, a union card or card asking for alms
Originally referring to the primarily coloured hobos who live on Table Mountain near Cape Town.
Boxcar used by hobos in stealing rides
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Hobo is American slang for a tramp or vagrant.
n 1. A corpse 2. A person regarded as constrained, priggish, or overly formal. 3. A drunk. 4. A person: a lucky stiff; just an ordinary working stiff. 5. A hobo; a tramp. 6. A person who tips poorly. tr.v. stiffed, stiffing, stiffs 1. To tip (someone) inadequately or not at all, as for a service rendered: paid the dinner check but stiffed the waiter. 2. a. To cheat (someone) of something owed: My roommate stiffed me out of last month's rent. b. To fail to give or supply (something expected or promised).
Tramp. Term is said to have originated on Burlington Route as a corruption of "Hello, boy!" which construction workers used in greeting one another
of heroin Little folded-up piece of paper (with heroin inside) the bundle (or “brindleâ€) in which a hobo carries all his worldy possessions
Hobo jungle is American slang for a shanty town.
Hobo riding head end of baggage car next to tender, where no door is placed; commonly called riding the blinds
Hobo. 'Bo chaser is freight brakeman or railroad policeman
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See Hobnob.
n.
A hautboy or oboe.
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