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bindle stiff
n. hobos, misfits, criminals, wanderers or drifting harvest workers.
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Bindle stiff
Usage examples of "bindle stiff".
The rest of the bundle was safe way back under my shirt and for once it paid to have a few bindle stiff habits.
But they were slightly anachronistic in cut and he had never expected to wear them longer than he had to-and a man on the road could not afford to look like a bindle stiff, which Miss Nettie probably didn't know.
He felt like a toss-up between a bindle stiff and a skid row derelict.