Hobo lingo:

• accommodation car – the caboose of a train
• angelina – young inexperienced kid
• banjo – a small portable frying pan
• bindle stick – collection of belongings wrapped in cloth and tied around a stick
• bone polisher – a mean dog
• bull – a railroad officer
• cannonball – a fast train
• catch the westbound – to die
• chuck a dummy – pretend to faint
• cow crate – a railroad stock car
• crums – lice
• doggin’ it – traveling by bus
• hot shot – a train with priority freight
• jungle – an area near a railroad in which hoboes camp and congregate
• knowledge bus – a schoolbus used for shelter
• road kid – a young hobo who apprentices himself to an older hobo in order to learn the ways of the road
• rum dum – a drunkard
• soup bowl- a palce to get soup, bread and drinks
• yegg – a traveling professional thief