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Definition
someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
- Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.Chapter 5 (71% in)
- "Five years ago you drove me away from your father's kitchen one night, when I come to ask for something to eat, and you said I warn't there for any good; and when I swore I'd get even with you if it took a hundred years, your father had me jailed for a vagrant.Chapter 9 (65% in)
- A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them and civilization.Chapter 14 (29% in)
- But her husband was rough on me—many times he was rough on me—and mainly he was the justice of the peace that jugged me for a vagrant.Chapter 29 (76% in)
There are no more uses of "vagrant" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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