hobosexual

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Formed as hobo +‎ sexual, punning on homosexual; compare hobohemia and metrosexual.

Noun[edit]

hobosexual (plural hobosexuals)

  1. A person sexually attracted to “tramps” (as a paronomastic synonym of hobo).
    • 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.”

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