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Difference Between Hobo and Yobo

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Hobo

A hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagrant, especially one who is impoverished. The term originated in the Western—probably Northwestern—United States around 1890.

Yobo

Yobo is a surname.

Hobo

A homeless person; a tramp or vagrant.

Yobo

A soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute.

Hobo

One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.

Yobo

A cruel and brutal fellow
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Hobo

A migrant worker.

Hobo

Also hobo bag A large, crescent-shaped handbag with a single shoulder strap and usually a zippered top.

Hobo

To live or wander like a vagrant.

Hobo

(North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.

Hobo

(North America) Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.

Hobo

A kind of large handbag.
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Hobo

To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.

Hobo

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living.

Hobo

A disreputable vagrant;
A homeless tramp
He tried to help the really down-and-out bums

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