The 'StreetHiker'
- streetwalker
- definition: a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
- Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl
- See Also: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, trollop, whore, woman of the street, working girl
- homeless dude
- (dts.: Penner, Landstreicher). This is the new, politically correct (PC: socially aware) expression for bum.
- bum
- Bum is now Homeless Person, Displaced Homeowner, Philosophy Major, Involuntarily Domiciled, (cf. hobo)
- street smarts
- a shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment
- hike
- [n] a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- [n] To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. [Dial. or Colloq.] ``If you persist in heaving and hiking like this.''
- n. The act of hiking; a tramp; a march. [Dial. or Colloq.]
- tramp
- [n] a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
- [n] a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
- [v] move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"
- hobo
- n.; pl. {Hobos} or {Hoboes}. [Of uncertain
origin.] A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- {Ho"bo*ism}, n.
- (cf.: dosser, drifter, floater, street person, vagrant)
- raggamuffin
- [n] a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
- n. [Cf. Ragamofin, the name of a
demon in some of the old mysteries.]
1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. --Dryden.
2. A person who wears ragged clothing. [Colloq.]
3. (Zo["o]l.) The long-tailed titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
- urchin
- [n] poor and often mischievous city child
- \Ur"chin\, n. [OE. urchon, irchon, a hedgehog (=IGEL), OF.
ire[,c]on, eri[,c]on, heri?on, herichon, F. h['e]risson, a
derivative fr. L. ericius, from er a hedgehog, for her; akin
to Gr. ?. Cf. {Herisson}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A hedgehog.
- A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a
hedgehog. ``We 'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and
fairies.'' --Shak.
- TATTERDEMALION
- \Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, n. [Tatter + OF.
desmaillier to break the meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon
long clothes, swadding clothes, F. maillot. See {Tatter}, and
{Mail} armor.] A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. --L'Estrange.
- synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, damaged, dilapidated, ragamuffin, ramshackle, tattered, tumble-down, unsound, worn, (arch. SANSCULOTTE)
- sansculotte
- 2. Any revolutionary with extremist views.
[From French, literally, without knee breeches. In the French Revolution, this was the aristocrats' term of contempt for the ill-clad volunteers of the Revolutionary army who rejected knee breeches as a symbol of the upper class and adopted pantaloons. As often happens with such epithets, the revolutionaries themselves adopted it as a term of pride.]