A person who with an unkempt, scabrous appearance and a shambling gait goes begging from car to car at a stoplight. The word derives from the Greek hodos, road or way, and phanein, to appear. It echoes the word sycophant. Example: The stoplights of San Juan are plagued with hodophants.
HODOPHANT
Meaning of HODOPHANT in English
Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012