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Not anymore. I once fell into a wiki-hole about hobo symbols.
If I remember right, they were commonly understood in past, but that Hobo culture has since gone extinct.

There is no 'hobo' lifestyle anymore. Homeless people now are mentally ill, or drug addicts.
The need for reasonable healthy people to become nomadic scavengers, no longer exists thanks to modern social safety nets.

[–] somestonedgnome 3 points (+3|-0)

Not true. I went homeless just for kicks a few years ago and met all kinds of awesome, intelligent friendly wanderers.
A lot of them aren't mentally ill druggies, they are just people who like adventure.