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Definition
someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
- I was really enjoying myself till a man came along and arrested me for vagrancy.2 — Persons Unknown (78% in)
- But he was not isolated, there were people to talk to, a plentiful turnover of drunkards, forgers, wife-beaters, and Mexican vagrants; and Dick, with his light-hearted "con-man" patter, his sex anecdotes and gamy jokes, was popular with the inmates (though there was one who had no use for him whatever-an old man who hissed at him: "Killer!4 — The Corner (12% in)
There are no more uses of "vagrant" in In Cold Blood.
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