bindle stiff
nounEtymology From bindle, a hobo’s sack.
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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.’ ”1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede:
- He felt like a toss-up between a bindle stiff and a skid row derelict.1983, Clive Cussler, “Pacific Vortex!”, in Dirk Pitt Series, volume 1, Random House LLC, →ISBN, page 80:
- Synonyms
- bindle punk