Fauxbo Edit Meaning

1.

1 : a migratory worker who frequent most large west coast cities asking for "quarters to make a phone call" or "money for bus fare/hamburger" or "help for sick one eyed dog" or (the honest approach) "my mom grounded me so and i ran away from home, i just need to get high"

2 : a FAKE homeless vagabond who, on a good day of panhandling, will rake in more money than you made working at your suffocating desk job.

fauxbos are usually wearing designer punk clothing worth more than anything in your own raggity wardrobe.

See punk, bum

2.

A person who lives next to the tracks but never rides the train. Usually an artist in suburbia, the fauxbo spends large amounts of time in freight yards tagging trains and flattening pennies. A fauxbo lives in a warehouse, dresses like a conductor and is frequently holding an open container. The first fauxbos came from TrampaFlorida and were an art collective that squatted at Rat Soap.

He ain't beat, that fauxbo.

See hobo, trampa, bobo, boho, botti

3.

1. A fake hobo, for fashion's sake or to make statement. Someone who dresses or talks or acts like they're homeless, when in fact they're not.

2. Someone pretending to be homeless to get money.

1. Mat Devineis such a fauxbo. Look's goddamn hot though.

2. Don't give that jack your change, he's blates a fauxbo.

See fauxbo, fake, homeless

4.

A trustfunder who pretends he/she is poor by taking on what he/she perceives as downmarket accoutrements, lingo, etc. Goes beyond "slumming it," as the appearance/manner/speech matches the environment in which the "slumming" plays out. In extreme cases, may manifest itself as a street musician playing for change, a runaway sleeping in doorways, or Muffy the stripper.

Usually a phase in which apathetic and/or nihilistic rich kids indulge themselves until Daddy or Mummy snaps them out of it with a threat to disinherit/cut off funds.

She's more like from Bedford Hills than BedStuy. The girl's a fauxbo!

See hobo, fake, poseur, trustafundian, slumming it