new age travellers

new age travellers
   British
   vagrants
   Itinerants who reject conventional attitudes to employment and trespass:
    In addition [to gypsies] there are estimated to be 2,500 to 5,000 'New Age Travellers'. (Daily Telegraph, 19 August, 1992)

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