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Tramp   /træmp/   Listen
Tramp

noun
1.
A disreputable vagrant.  Synonyms: bum, hobo.  "He tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
2.
A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex.  Synonym: swinger.
3.
A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure).  Synonyms: hiker, tramper.
4.
A heavy footfall.
5.
A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule.  Synonym: tramp steamer.
6.
A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.  Synonyms: hike, hiking.
verb
(past & past part. tramped; pres. part. tramping)
1.
Travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition.
2.
Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.  Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, trudge.
3.
Cross on foot.
4.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander.  "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"



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"Tramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... the maids and cavalier, By their great goodness moved, from plate and mail Had stript their upper vests, well fitting gear Those miserable ladies' shame to veil. Bradamant suffers not, that, as whilere, Sad Ulany shall tramp by hill and dale; But seats her on her horse's croup; so do Her comrades by those other ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... have gone hard with her, she's so delicate. Gee, I'm glad I ran out of tobacco this morning and thought a two-mile tramp across the desert for it ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... American policeman. Is he equally polite to a railroad magnate and a tramp? What do you understand by ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... against his desires and a frightened resistance to the advances of Miss Wyeth, had fled to the billiard-room. The Widow T.-B., odorous of cocktails, plowed through the intricacies of the latest dances, wallowing like a bluff-bowed tramp steamer, full to the hatches with a cargo of rum and sugar. Bert Hayman, fatuously inflamed with Lorelei's beauty, waged a bitter contest with the other men for her favor. He appropriated her, he was affectionate; ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... trivial unimportances masquerading in my mood of the moment as serious affairs. So the summer has come and gone, and only for an all-too-brief period have I "got away." Nor have I particularly enjoyed my respite from the roar of omnibuses, the tramp, tramp, tramp of the crowded pavements. Somehow or other the war has robbed me of my love of solitude Somehow or other the peace and beauty and solitude of Nature still "hurt" me, as they used to hurt me during the years of the great world ...
— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King


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