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- noun A
community ofhoboes .
Etymologies
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Blend of hobo and bohemia
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Examples
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This self-deprecation was a highlight of Cold Cream, where Mount detailed his childhood in what he called "hobohemia" (a subsection of the landed aristocracy that had little money but many connections) and his subsequent rise through the ranks.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The next year, Reitman became the director of the newly-formed Hobo College in a makeshift Chicago neighborhood known as Hobohemia.
The Hobo College of Hobohemia | JSTOR Daily Livia Gershon 2019
ecbrenner commented on the word hobohemia
community of hobos
March 9, 2009
ry commented on the word hobohemia
this should be a word of the day
December 12, 2012