boxcar hobo
- freightGoods being transported
- railyardTrain staging facility
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- vagrantHomeless itinerant person
- hoboItinerant without fixed address
wanderer · trainhopping · railcar · bindle · campfire · whistle · tracks · trestle · nomad · stew · jungle · dusty · rambling · depression · coal · wheels · switchyard · lonely
social class and stability
boxcar hoboaristocrat
Person of noble birth
millionaire · landed gentry · robber baron · plutocrat · Cornelius Vanderbilt
mobility and dwelling
boxcar hobohomeowner
Property title holder
homebody · landowner · permanent resident · householder · homesteader
work ethic and social conformity
boxcar hobocompany man
Employee devoted to employer
organization man · nine-to-fiver · wage earner · breadwinner · white-collar worker