vagabond

vagabond
adj
1. nomadic, vagrant, Bohemian, gypsy; wandering, roaming, roving, rambling, straying, straggling; moving, ambulant, traveling, peregrinating, journeying; migrating, migrant, migratory, itinerant, peripatetic, drifting, floating, Sl. rolling; transient, transitory, temporary, fly-by-night.
2. unsettled, carefree, untied, uncommitted; loose, lax, wanton, dissolute, promiscuous; disreputable, worthless, shiftless, good-for-nothing.
n
3. tramp, vagrant, Archaic. runagate, hobo, Chiefly U.S. Inf. boomer, Australian. swagman, beachcomber, derelict, street Arab; Inf. bum, Sl. vag, Sl. bo, Sl. stiff, Sl. bindle stiff, Sl. canvas back; panhandler, Yiddish. schnorrer, down-and-outer; migrant worker, itinerant, Usu. Disparaging. Okie, drifter, Inf. floater, transient, fly-by-night; wanderer, roamer, rover, rambler, strayer, straggler, gadabout; migrator, bird of passage, Sl. rolling stone; gypsy, nomad; outcast, pariah, castaway.
4. rogue, picaro, knave, scapegrace, wastrel, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught; villain, miscreant, reprobate, incorrigible; rascal, rapscallion, scamp, devil, troublemaker; libertine, rake, wanton, debauchee.

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