A homeless person. From the rhyming slang paraffin lamp: tramp.
I gave the old paraffin a fiver to get himself some booze.
Dropping yo nut sack into some hot wax
After getting white girl wasted paul went paraffin teabagging to turn Christy on.
cockney rhyming slang for tramp
shut up u fuckin paraffin lamp
Normally one who chooses to live outside society's boundaries. Scavengers and beggars. Unwashed and unkempt, sleeping rough.
"Look at that dirty old 'paraffin lamp' sleeping in that doorway!!"