bag lady
noun
a woman who has no home and walks around the streets carrying everything that she owns in bags
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noun
a woman who has no home and walks around the streets carrying everything that she owns in bags
noun
someone who has no home or job and lives on the streets. A more usual word is a homeless person.
adjective
without a place to live. Homeless people sometimes sleep, eat, and wash in a homeless shelter
adjective
a stateless person is one who is not officially recognized as a citizen of any country
noun
someone without a home or a job who moves from one place to another and asks people for food, work, or money
noun
noun
without a permanent home
going from one place to another because you do not have a permanent home
with no place to live
if you sleep or live rough, you sleep or live outside
a place where a lot of people live in tents because they lost their homes due to war or other bad events
children or animals that do not have homes
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