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vagrant
used in The Grapes of Wrath

7 uses
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Definition
someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
  • Tom said, "They'll be somebody else foun' dead right 'longside of this here vagrant."
    Chapter 20 (19% in)
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
  • Got a law about vagrants.
    Chapter 16 (79% in)
    • vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
  • If I pay you a half a dollar I ain't a vagrant, huh?
    Chapter 16 (79% in)
    • vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
  • Vagrant foun' dead.
    Chapter 20 (18% in)
    • vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
  • You'll see a lot of them little lines, 'Vagrant foun' dead.'
    Chapter 20 (18% in)
    • vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
  • So he takes this little guy in, an' they give him sixty days in jail for vagrancy.
    Chapter 24 (20% in)
    • vagrancy = for hanging around without a regular home or means of support
  • You know a vagrant is anybody a cop don't like.
    Chapter 24 (21% in)
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job (in this case, indicating violation of the then legal definition of vagrant which was a violation of the law)
There are no more uses of "vagrant" in The Grapes of Wrath.

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