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hoboes

[hoh-boh] Origin

ho·bo

[hoh-boh]
noun, plural -bos, -boes.
1.
a tramp or vagrant.
2.
a migratory worker.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; origin uncertain

ho·bo·ism, noun
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Hoboes is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

hobo
1889, Western Amer.Eng., of unknown origin, perhaps related to early 19c. Eng. dial. hawbuck "lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin." Or from ho, boy, a workers' call on late 19c. western U.S. railroads. Hence facetious formation hobohemia "community or life of hobos," 1923 (see bohemian).
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