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1.
A
hobo
who carries a
bindle
.
2.
One who has nothing; a
pauper
. "
That bindle-stiff
ain't got a pretzel
(nothing).
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In
James Blish
's
Okie
series (aka
Cities in Flight
), the term bindlestiff is used to describe a
migrant
city
which
prey
s on other migrant cities. Blish's explanation of the origin of the term is that a bindlestiff was a migrant (a
hobo
or a
tramp
) who preyed on other migrants, particularly by
steal
ing from their
bindle
s. (NB: This
definition
does not match that given by
Webster's Dictionary
.)
New York
, the primary city in Blish's
novel
s, meets up with, and defeats, several bindlestiffs in their travels.
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