vagrant

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The further origin is unclear, but many scholars think it's indeed related to the English word tramp, "to stamp around," whose walking-about inspired the slang for "vagrant."

From Salon

And we were sleeping rough and avoiding the cops and basically living as vagrants.

From Los Angeles Times

Dreamlike and deliberate, pedestrian and theatrical, bland and strangely beautiful, “About Endlessness” takes in the suffering, struggle and moments of vagrant joy in life and propels them into the cosmos.

From Washington Post

Then there are the confusions of vagrant warblers that get blown off course from the East by storm or brain glitch and happen upon this glorious truck stop shimmering in the desert.

From New York Times

Another train operator complained that subway vagrants are constantly "in your face."

From Fox News