What is the difference between a hobo, a tramp, and a bum?

Question

Im just seeing if anyone knows.
First one to get the right answer wins best answer!!!

haha =]
ill give everyone a hint.
i don't mean "tramp" as in the "slut" kind.
And looking it up in the dictionary is cheating!!!

sorry, but none of you got it right! =S

Answer 1

they are slang terms-listed under what category? And gaming for points-would be your catch.

Answer 2

I'm sure the bums, tramps and hobos would think so but I don't know any.

Answer 3

A hobo will work. A tramp is a homeless wanderer.
A bum does little and sponges off of others.

Answer 4

a hobo and bum are pretty much the same thing, just different names. And i think a bum can also be used to describe a free loader. And a tramp is like a hooker.

Answer 5

a hobo is a down-on-luck homeless person...from circumstances that was out of his or her control...
a tramp is a down-on-luck homeless girl who will "do anything" for some extra cash-legal or illegal-sometimes the circumstance where out or her control-sometimes they weren't
a bum is a person who is down-on-luck because they would prefer free hand-outs rather than going out there and getting a job

Answer 6

Hobos ride the rails and carry bindles.
Tramps wander about doing odd jobs.
Bums live in cardboard boxes and beg for food and money.

Hobos rock.

Answer 7

Hobo: A homeless guy that travels mostly by train.

Tramp: Madonna.

Bum: George Bush.

Answer 8

Babol University of Medical Sciences (BUMS), Iran
Bum, a pejorative slang word used in the U.S. for a homeless person
Bum, a vernacular word used in some countries for buttocks
Bum also Būm, is the name of a city in Afghanistan
Bum, pronounced Boom in English, a 1979 short film by Bretislav Pojar, winner of the 1979 Jury Prize at Cannes for Best Short Film.
Bum is a mutated, feminine form of the Welsh pump, meaning five, for example, bum brenhines (five queens). Pronounced (in English) "bim".
Bum, a pop punk band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada that played frequently throughout the early 1990s.
Bum!, a British pop punk band from South London, England that played frequently throughout the early 1990-1996.
Beach bum, a sub-culture
Bumfights, video
Bum rap, a false criminal charge
Bum rush, the act of rushing towards something, as in spectators stampeding towards a stage, or more generally
Bum Steer, an unsatisfactory or fraudulent transaction, also bad advice
Hobo is a term that refers to certain wandering homeless people, particularly those who make a habit of freighthopping. The iconic image of a hobo is that of a downtrodden, shabbily-dressed and perhaps drunken male, one that was solidified in American culture during the Great Depression. Hobos are often depicted carrying a bindle.

The hobo imagery has been employed by entertainers to create wildly succesful characters in the past, most famously Emmett Kelly's "Weary Willy" and Red Skelton's "Freddy the Freeloader".

Tramp
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Tramp has a number of meanings:

A tramp is an itinerant who travels from place to place, traditionally tramping, that is, walking. While they may do odd jobs from time to time, tramps aren't looking for regular work and support themselves by other means i.e. begging or scavenging. This is in contrast to hobos who travel from place to place (often by catching rides on freight trains) looking for work, or schnorrers, who travel from city to city begging. Both the terms tramp and hobo (and the distinction between them) were in common use between the 1880s and the 1940s, and were not limited to the Great Depression. Schnorrer is a Yiddish term. Like hobo and bum, tramp is considered somewhat rude in American English usage, having been subsumed in more polite contexts by words such as homeless person or transient. It remains relatively more common in British English, but has also been somewhat replaced with homeless person.
In New Zealand tramping is the commonly used name for a hike of at least one overnight stay in the outdoors. The travel book by Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad uses the word in this sense. It is not about an indigent itinerant.
Vacilando is a kind of tramp for whom the travel as such is more important than the destination.
Tramp is also a slang term for a "loose" woman or prostitute in American English.
In shipping terminology, a tramp steamer is a seagoing vessel which undertakes voyages for hire, as opposed to one making regular runs on a specified route.
Tramp metal consists of pieces of metal that occur as an unwelcome impurity in other material, such as waste paper for recycling.
Tramp was the pseudonym of Michael Halpin Lawing while recording, performing, and writing music. "Tramp" played primarily fiddle and mandolin and performed with numerous musical groups including the Kendalls, Walk the West, The Cactus Brothers and Bonepony.
Tramp nightclub is one of the most prestigious and exclusive clubs in the world, located in Jermyn street in London, UK. Entrance is permited only to members and some guests. Tramp nightclub is well known as the any playboy’s place to be.

Answer 9

hobo: controls a train
tramp: eats seafood
bum: a deadbeat

Answer 10

hobos ride trains
tramps live in cities
bums live at the beach

Answer 11

i know the difference between the tramp and the lawyer... the tramp will stop screwing you once you are dead.