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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)
- If I pay you a half a dollar I ain't a vagrant, huh?Chapter 16 (79% in)
- Vagrant foun' dead.Chapter 20 (18% in)
- You'll see a lot of them little lines, 'Vagrant foun' dead.'Chapter 20 (18% in)
- So he takes this little guy in, an' they give him sixty days in jail for vagrancy.Chapter 24 (20% in)
- You know a vagrant is anybody a cop don't like.Chapter 24 (21% in)
vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
vagrancy = for hanging around without a regular home or means of support
There are no more uses of "vagrant" in The Grapes of Wrath.
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