hobo camp
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈhoʊboʊ kæmp/
- Archaic
:
campamento de vagabundos
- The researchers documented the living conditions in a makeshift hobo camp under the bridge.
Examples
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I ran around the country, I lived in hobo camps, I settled appalachian families...
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Somebody spotted two of them out in this hobo camp near the airport.
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Looks like a hobo camp in here.
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" The following morning, we showed up at the most intricate and advanced hobo camp I have ever seen.
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After the storm, we discovered several tents and supplies scattered around a small hobo camp near the river.
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The community organized a cleanup event to help improve the sanitation at the local hobo camp.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people stay in tents or simple buildings for a short time
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1.4
A place where people put up tents or park small camper vans and use basic facilities like toilets and showers
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6.0
A place where people live temporarily in tents outdoors
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9.6
A place near a town where homeless travelers camp, often near rail lines
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'hobo' (an itinerant person) + 'camp' (a temporary settlement), so it straightforwardly denotes a place where hoboes gather and camp. This simple noun+noun compound follows regular English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically plausible, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.
Etymology
Hobo camp The name hobo camp comes from real camps where traveling workers called hoboes stopped to rest and sleep. These rough camps had tents, small fires and shared food, so 'hobo camp' now means a temporary, makeshift place where people without homes or travelers stay.