stroller, noun
- Origin:
- Scottish, EnglishShow more Special sense of (Scottish) English stroller vagrant, itinerant beggar.
slang
A homeless young urban vagrant, a street child. Cf. Malalapipe.
1986 W. Schärf et al. in Burman & Reynolds Growing Up 262A stroller is someone who don’t sleep by his house — he sleeps in the street. He don’t eat by his house — he eats by the bins. A stroller is someone who thinks he is free...It’s a nice name for us.
1992 South 27 Feb. 3At a traffic light a little stroller taps on my car window in the drizzle, cupping his hands in a begging gesture.
A homeless young urban vagrant, a street child.
- Derivatives:
- Hence stroll intransitive verb, to live as a vagrant; so strolling verbal noun, this way of life.1987 L. Beake Strollers 6‘Strolling’s,’ he paused, looking for the right word, ‘like free. Yes, man, freedom’s what it’s all about. I been going now for years. My folks don’t mind. One less mouth, my Da always says.’
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