All 7 Uses of
vagrant
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- Got a law about vagrants.
Chpt 16vagrants = 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?
Chpt 16vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
- Vagrant foun' dead.
Chpt 20
- You'll see a lot of them little lines, 'Vagrant foun' dead.'
Chpt 20
- ' " Tom said, "They'll be somebody else foun' dead right 'longside of this here vagrant."†
Chpt 20 *
- So he takes this little guy in, an' they give him sixty days in jail for vagrancy.
Chpt 24vagrancy = for hanging around without a regular home or means of support
- You know a vagrant is anybody a cop don't like.
Chpt 24vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
Definitions:
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(1)
(vagrant) someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and especially long ago, you may see vagrant used to emphasize that a poor person wanders from place to place. Even more rarely, it can describe an animal as being in a place it usually is not, or to describe anything that varies or seems random such as the seeming haphazard direction in which a certain weed spreads, or the fleeting quality of something smelled for only an instant.