hobos, tramps and bums

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Feb 15 11:18:57 UTC 2002


At 6:19 PM -0500 2/15/02, James A. Landau wrote:
>
>"A tramp is a migratory worker.  A hobo is a migratory non-worker.  A bum is
>a non-migratory non-worker" is the way I heard it.
>
Wouldn't "railroad bum" be an oxymoron then?  It's not.

larry



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