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hobosexual (plural hobosexuals)

1. A person sexually attracted to tramps or hobos.
   • 1993, David A. Rudnitsky, Men Who Hate Themselves and the Women Who Agree with Them, pages 160–161:

     You’re a hobosexual — do you hear me! — a hobosexual! A man who can only get excited by women who are real tramps‼

2. (Should we delete this sense?) Punning on bum (as a synonym of hobo).
   • 2004, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book of Couples, page 40:

     “Your Honor,” the young man said, “I just can’t live with my wife anymore. She’s a hobosexual.”
     “Just one moment,” interrupted the judge. “Don’t you mean homosexual?”
     “I mean hobosexual. You see, my wife’s a bum lay.”

   • 2004, Kuldeep Saluja, The Unofficial Joke Book of South Africa, page 48:

     “I never knew much about this boy’s father. He came through here, courted me and we got married. Soon afterwards I found out he was a hobosexual.”
     “You mean homosexual,” came the correction.
     “No, sir, I mean hobosexual. He was just a no-good, passionate bum.”

   • 2010, R. Scott Bakker, Neuropath, chapter 12?:

     ‘Smart-ass, know-it-all, arrogant pricks, with their terrorist sympathies, their hobosexual neighbors — ’
     ‘Hobosexual?’
     ‘Bum fuckers! Fags!’

3. A person of an unkempt appearance.

   Antonym: metrosexual

   • 2010, Danita Carter, Murder in the Hamptons, page 277:

     “You mean the hobosexual looking dude? Looks like somebody shook him up in a bag, and then tossed him out?”
     Madison giggled. “That’s funny, where did you get hobosexual from?”
     “Judging from the looks of him, he surely isn’t meticulous about his looks like a metrosexual.”

関連する語

• hobosexuality

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005) “hobosexual”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1008.