hobosexual

plural hobosexuals

1. A person sexually attracted to tramps or hobos.

   Trust me. D-Man was homeless. Want to know how I know? I'm a hobosexual. Tramps float my boat.

   2019, Gerry Duggan, The Despicable Deadpool, page 237

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

   1993, David A. Rudnitsky, Men Who Hate Themselves and the Women Who Agree with Them, pages 160–161

2. Senses punning on hobo having the synonym bum:
   1. A person whose sexual partner is a bum lay.

      What can I tell you — she was, as one Brooklyn friend once tells me, a ‘hobosexual’: a bum lay.

      2015, Stephen Deutsch, Zweck: A Novel and Mostly Reliable Musical History, page 142

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      “Oh well,” she snorted, “you'd probably turn out to be a hobosexual anyway.” A red glob of anger formed behind my eyeballs. “What do you mean, homosexual?” “I did not say homosexual,” she screeched, “I said hobosexual. You would probably make a bum lay!”

      1975, George Antonich, The Substitute Stud, page 74

      “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, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book of Couples, page 40

   2. A sex partner who is a bum.

      “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.”

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

   3. One who fucks bums (anuses); an assfucker; in particular, a gay man.

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

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

3. A person of an unkempt appearance.

   “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.”

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

   Antonyms: metrosexual

4. A person who seeks out romantic relationships in order to secure housing.

   I've met people who jokingly referred to themselves as “hobosexual,” meaning they were so poor they would date whoever would let them stay at their house for the night.

   2024, Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had To Learn About Money, page 38