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kulkuri — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • glider noun An aircraft designed to fly without an engine, using air currents to stay aloft.
  • hobo noun A homeless person who travels from place to place, historically often by illegally hopping freight trains.
  • roadster noun A two-seat open-top sports car, typically without a back seat.
  • rogue noun A dishonest or unprincipled person; a scoundrel.
  • rover noun Someone or something that wanders or travels widely, including robotic vehicles used to explore other planets.
  • straggler noun Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
  • tramp noun A homeless person who travels from place to place, often on foot.
  • vagabond noun A person who wanders from place to place with no fixed home, often living hand to mouth.
  • vagrant noun A person with no permanent home who moves from place to place, often begging or living on the street.
  • Wanderer noun Someone who travels or roams without a fixed destination.

Senses

kulkuri is used for these senses in English:

  • glider (cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
  • hobo (North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.
  • roadster A person who lives along the road.
  • rogue A vagrant.
  • rover One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
  • straggler A roving vagabond.
  • tramp (sometimes, pejorative) A homeless person; a vagabond. [from 1664]
  • vagabond A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

glider — full definition

  1. noun An aircraft designed to fly without an engine, using air currents to stay aloft.
  2. noun A person or animal capable of gliding, or a swinging porch chair that moves smoothly back and forth.

hobo — full definition

  1. noun A homeless person who travels from place to place, historically often by illegally hopping freight trains.
  2. noun A large, slouchy handbag.

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