tramp
1to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
to tread heavily or trample (usually followed by on or upon): to tramp on a person's toes.
to walk steadily; march; trudge: They tramped wearily through the night.
to go on a walking excursion or expedition; hike: a beautiful day for tramping through the countryside.
to go about as a vagabond or tramp.
to make a voyage on a tramp steamer.
to tramp or walk heavily or steadily through or over.
to traverse on foot: to tramp the streets.
to tread or trample underfoot: to tramp grapes.
to travel over as a tramp.
to run (a ship) as a tramp steamer.
the act of tramping.
a firm, heavy, resounding tread.
the sound made by such a tread.
a long, steady walk; trudge.
a walking excursion or expedition; hike.
a person who travels on foot from place to place, especially a vagabond living on occasional jobs or gifts of money or food.
a sexually promiscuous woman; prostitute.
a freight vessel that does not run regularly between fixed ports, but takes a cargo wherever shippers desire.: Compare cargo liner.
a piece of iron affixed to the sole of a shoe.
Origin of tramp
1Other words for tramp
Other words from tramp
- tramper, noun
- trampish, adjective
- tramp·ish·ly, adverb
- tramp·ish·ness, noun
- un·tramped, adjective
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Other definitions for tramp (2 of 2)
a trampoline: We learned some wicked pivots on the tramp today.
to use a trampoline, especially with a tramp board: These are the boards preferred by professional water skiers who tramp as part of their training.
Origin of tramp
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How to use tramp in a sentence
She’s also the world’s most impeccably purposeful walking contradiction, having developed her iconic look after being inspired by the town tramp.
Anne Lamott’s Advice Could Stop You From Drowning in Cynicism | Susanna Schrobsdorff | September 23, 2021 | TimeWhere once he satirized the meretricious appeal of Hollywood, movie stars and reality TV, here he’s hunkered down with homeless workers, railway tramps and union organizers.
‘The Cold Millions,’ Jess Walter’s celebration of forgotten heroes, is one of the most captivating novels of the year | Ron Charles | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post“We went on to tramp…He was the most hideous dancer I had ever seen,” she tells the Mail.
Lester is a strange little man alone in a cabin, not far from The tramp locked in his cabin in The Gold Rush.
As for the Little tramp himself, his corpse was reburied in a concrete grave to prevent future snatching.
Invasion of the Celebrity Body Snatchers, From Charlie Chaplin to Casey Kasem | Melissa Leon | July 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Still, if you want to know what it felt like to be at the center of a musical revolution, read I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean tramp.
Richard Hell Was the First Person to Shoot Up Heroin in Front of Me | Legs McNeil | March 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe only evidence of Nino the clown—the red rubber nose and its Little tramp mustache—lies on a nearby table.
The 'tramp' contains better usage without doubt, but it lacks the "color" which gives the Innocents its perennial charm.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineA tramp Abroad' is a rare book, but it cannot rank with its great predecessor in human charm.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineThe tramp contains better English usage, without doubt, but it is less full of happiness and bloom and the halo of romance.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineThere have been many and varying opinions since then as to the literary merits of 'A tramp Abroad'.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineA tramp Abroad' is the work of a man who was traveling and observing for the purpose of writing a book, and for no other reason.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine
British Dictionary definitions for tramp
/ (træmp) /
(intr) to walk long and far; hike
to walk heavily or firmly across or through (a place); march or trudge
(intr) to wander about as a vagabond or tramp
(tr) to make (a journey) or traverse (a place) on foot, esp laboriously or wearily: to tramp the streets in search of work
(tr) to tread or trample
(intr) NZ to walk for sport or recreation, esp in the bush
a person who travels about on foot, usually with no permanent home, living by begging or doing casual work
a long hard walk; hike
a heavy or rhythmic step or tread
the sound of heavy treading
Also called: tramp steamer a merchant ship that does not run between ports on a regular schedule but carries cargo wherever the shippers desire
slang, mainly US and Canadian a prostitute or promiscuous girl or woman
an iron plate on the sole of a boot
Origin of tramp
1Derived forms of tramp
- tramping, noun
- trampish, adjective
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