hobos, tramps and bums

[George Thompson]

The following is no doubt a traditional distinction, though I haven't
looked it up.  But it seems that it is still current.

>From the NYTimes, February 14, 2002, p. D5, col. 1 (the Sports section).

Many tramps define homelessness in these ways: A hobo travels and
works; a tramp travels and drinks; a bum drinks and does nothing.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.