Adjective modifier

• little: And, never forgetting 'Peter ' , the littlest hobo of Portugal, our part time companion.

• cosmic: Cosmic hobo -- that's my idea of the Doctor.

• female: I specifically want to examine what the growing body of scholarship on the male hobo means for the, often neglected, female hobo.

• old: In an instant one psychedelic traveler meets the gentle swagger of an old hobo going the other way.

Modifies a noun

• sign: The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.

• jungle: Dempsey lived the American Dream, rising from the hobo jungles to the greatest prize in sport.

• song: WE ARE NOT STRANGERS is a kind of hobo song, done to a calypso or reggae beat.

• spider: Hobo spiders move into houses about this time every year.