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bindle stiff

noun

Etymology

From bindle, a hobo’s sack.

Definitions

  1. A hobo, misfit, criminal, wanderer, or drifting harvest worker.

    • “So maybe you better jus’ scatter along now, ’cause Curley maybe ain’t gonna like his wife out in the barn with us ‘bindle stiffs.’ ”
    • He felt like a toss-up between a bindle stiff and a skid row derelict.

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