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means A person who roams from place to place with no fixed home or steady income, especially one living on the streets.

from From Old French 'walcrant' or 'wacrant,' tangled up with 'vagant' (wandering) from Latin 'vagari,' meaning to roam or stray — root of 'vague' too, since both describe things without fixed boundaries. By the 1300s English had 'vagrant' as a noun for wanderers and beggars, and lawmakers wasted no time turning it into a legal category to punish: vagrancy laws for centuries criminalized simply being poor and on the move, which is the less whimsical half of this word's history.