J.H. Pepper's definitions

flobo

n. /floʊ-boʊ/

1. A hobo who lives in a sewer or storm drain, especially those using the flow of water as a primary means of transportation.

2. Any subterranean vagrant inhabiting man-made tunnels.

"The tunnels beneath Moscow host a veritable legion of sewerbound psychotics, squatters, flobos, hookers (or "manholes" as they're called in the local slang), underpimps, pipemen, cricketeers, and thieves - and not a few specimens of truly unique megafauna - warily coexisting in the city's sprawling, twilit netherworld."
-Vitaliy Kaprov, De Historibus Muscovum Chthonium (1924)

by J.H. Pepper June 25, 2009