Hobo
Hobo noun - A homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living.
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Vagrants
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- During The Great Depression, traveling vagrants developed a written cant called hobo signs to alert other vagrants of certain services, conditions, and warnings.
Source: Thieves' Cant - And though it has been many years since the last Boxcar War and the most recent death of their Eternal King, the vagrants of New York still possessed many of the forgotten secrets of their hobo ancestors.
Source: Wisdom from the Gutter
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