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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



... over when a curious rolling sound was heard, followed by the tramp of horses: and Aubrey jumped up to look, for it was half-an-hour too soon for the baggage-horses to be brought. He had to run into the porch-chamber to see what it was, and before he returned came old Roger the serving-man, with a ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... piece of news I have to tell you is, that the gallery is finished; that is, the workmen have quitted it. For chairs and tables, not one is arrived yet. Well, how you will tramp up and down in it! Methinks I wish you would. We are in the perfection of beauty; verdure itself was never green till this summer, thanks to the deluges of rain. Our complexion used to be mahogany in August. Nightingales and ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... at once, told her that the barrow-hunt was winding homewards; gleams of colour athwart the hedges told her that the hunters were in the lane; and in a minute or two Miss Wendover and her young kins-folk appeared, all more or less sunburnt and towzled by their tramp across the downs. ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... lamp, Which lit the darkness, small and wan, Searched where the mules did tramp and stamp, Amid the litter and the damp, For some small place to ...
— Lundy's Lane and Other Poems • Duncan Campbell Scott
... when he could have had his loaf for the asking?" remonstrated Sweetwater. "Agatha Webb would have gone without a meal any time to feed a wandering tramp; how much more to supply the necessities of two of her oldest and ...
— Agatha Webb • Anna Katharine Green


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