Boxcar hopper
The crossword clue "Boxcar hopper" is answered by HOBO, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HOBO
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOBO answer page.
Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HOBO
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOBO, most used first.
- Vagrant - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Vagabond - used 72 times, most recently in 2024
- Tramp - used 68 times, most recently in 2023
- King of the road - used 50 times, most recently in 2025
- Boxcar rider - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Bum - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
- Rail rider - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
- Drifter - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Bindlestiff - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Knight of the road. - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
- Transient - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Wanderer - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Freight car hopper, stereotypically - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Bindle bearer - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Freight-train hopper - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Freight train rider - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Bindle stiff - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Rail-riding wanderer - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Roads scholar? - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Freight train stowaway - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Gentleman of the road - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Rail-riding vagabond - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Red Skelton persona - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Warty hopper - TOAD, used 35 times
- Long-eared hopper - HARE, used 29 times
- Little hopper - TOAD, used 16 times
- Hopper - TOAD, used 14 times
- Big-eared hopper - HARE, used 8 times
- Maligned hopper - TOAD, used 7 times
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