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Type Words
Synonyms clochard, drifter, floater, vagabond
Type of roamer, rover, have-not, bird of passage, wanderer, poor person
Has types beachcomber, bum, hobo, sundowner, tramp
Type Words
Synonyms aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond
Derivation vagrancy


vagrant hippies of the sixties.

Examples of vagrant

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This migratory North American mystery bird is a rare vagrant to western Europe.
From the guardian.co.uk
Kids of earlier generations got a vagrant, enforced education in classical music.
From the time.com
Lundy has attracted many vagrant birds, in particular species from North America.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This is disruptive, and a waste of my time to keep my eye out for vagrant bots.
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There was the vagrant lead part in a high school play about St. Francis of Assisi.
From the time.com
Three species have been regularly recorded in Australia, and a fourth is a vagrant.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant.
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You just might be one of the lucky few to see a vagrant winter hummingbird.
From the post-gazette.com
In his youth, he successively became an apprentice lawyer, an engraver and a vagrant.
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More examples
  • A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
  • Aimless: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
  • (vagrancy) the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood
  • A vagrant is a person in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income. Many towns in the Developed World have shelters for vagrants. Common terminology is a tramp or a 'gentleman of the road'.
  • Vagrant, (1873 - c.1890) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for his 1876 Kentucky Derby win. Vagrant was the first of nine geldings to win the Kentucky Derby and was a white-stockinged bay colt sired by Virgil out of the mare Lazy (by Scythian (GB)). ...
  • The Vagrant is a 2002 Chinese drama. It was produced by Mediacorp, a television station in Singapore. The cast includes Mediacorp's Ah Ge, Li Nanxing, Huang Biren, Zhang Yaodong, Le Yao, Huang Yiliang, and Tracer Wong. ...
  • The Vagrant (1992) is a 1992 black comedy film. It stars Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside & Marshall Bell and revolves around a yuppie (Paxton) who is being driven insane by a crazed bum (Bell) after moving into a new home the destitute is currently squatting in.
  • (The Vagrants) The Vagrants were a Long Island-based rock and blue-eyed soul group from the 1960s. The group was composed of Peter Sabatino on vocals, harmonica, and tambourine, Leslie West on vocals and guitar, Larry West on vocals and bass guitar, on organ, and Roger Mansour on drums.
  • (Vagrancy (biology)) Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby individual animals appear well outside their normal range; individual animals which exhibit vagrancy are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. ...