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A hobo is homeless and travels place to place to work. Differing from a bum that does not work.
Hitchhiker just trying to get somewhere.
A hitchhiker is someone who travels from one point to another by “hitching” rides from other people or entities going in the direction they desire to travel.
A hobo is a homeless vagrant. They might hitchhike too, but in addition they don’t have a home.
A hitchhiker makes a thumbs up sign to oncoming traffic, indicating he wants a [free lift or ride](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/hitchhiking-manual-1980-change-best-worst-pickups-emotional-poland-a8640876.html) somewhere. He or she is a dying (resurrected?) breed, gaining most popularity in the 1970’s and 80’s when not everyone was possibly a psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est.
A hobo is more likely an oldey-worldey term where the gent (yes, he was most likely a man) might [hitch a ride](https://images.app.goo.gl/uY3k2wcxJpyMPtg46) between locations but he also would take his [swag](https://images.app.goo.gl/hWNqAjPtMzimFPDc6) and live under a bridge or in a barn. Most cultural references to a hobo are relative to america – interchangeable with a [bum](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcStW1y7XzFaI_KpdQjtka5lyQW3lZu7zLawwylkAf-pooNqz1uP) – homeless, jobless and most likely a druggie or drunk.
A hitchhiker is just someone who bums a ride. Maybe his car broke down. Maybe he doesn’t have a car. Doesn’t matter. It’s just the act of hitching a ride.
A homo is sinner in the eyes of god.
Originally, a hobo was an itinerant worker. Hobos travelled from town to town doing seasonal jobs that only lasted a short amount of time. The term dates back to at least the great depression where most hobos got from town to town by illegally riding freight trains. In some parts of the world, the term hobo has come to be a generic term for a homeless person.
A hitchhiker is someone who travels around by begging lifts from drivers that they meet (or flag down). They might be traveling for work or for recreation.
Minor trivia, I recall hearing the term Hobo got started (post Depression??) from the “Hoe Boys” who went around with a garden hoe from farm to farm looking for work. They’d typically have their few belonings wrapped in a cloth & hanging from the hoe.
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