Synonyms and related words :
Arab, Bowery bum, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, bandit, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blight, blighter, bo, brigand, budmash, bum, cadger, caitiff, care, coupon clippers, cross, curse, depredator, derelict, devil, difficulties, difficulty, dogie, downer, drifter, drone, drunkard, forager, freebooter, freeloader, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idle rich, idler, irritation, landloper, lazzarone, leisure class, loafer, looter, losel, lounge lizard, lowlife, lumpen proletariat, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, pauvre diable, piker, pilgarlic, pillager, plight, plunderer, poor creature, poor devil, predicament, pressure, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rentiers, rigor, rounder, sad case, sad sack, schnorrer, scrounger, sea of troubles, ski bum, skid-row bum, spiv, sponger, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, stress, stress of life, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vale of tears, vaurien, vicissitude, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, worthless fellow, wretch